congratulations beautiful

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This is how the EU itself is reporting on it in their daily press releases LINK Note that they are trying to frame it as "just making sure there's no CSAM in the emails!", which we know is not what chat controls are for in the end. Chat control 2.0 is still unresolved, but now that they pushed through 1.0 even though majority voted against it, that weakens 2.0's resistance.

Meanwhile, enjoy this picture from May of this year where the EPP who was reviving chatcontrol 1.0 is shaking hands with Zucky

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.

so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)

Veil status: normal

Tomorrow's veil: normal to thick