Miss Mini Gally Bloggins

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

20. Demon Sandwiches

21. Parent Points

22. The Villain Wrangler

23. The Reaper Chp1, Chp2, Chp3

24. Still On Patrol

25. The Last Story Time

26. At 18, everyone receive a superpower

27. They were expecting military resistance- read through the notes on this ones, there’s a TON of material on various post threads

28. Theatrical Urban Legends - again browse the tags

29. Monster Under The Bed

30. Hsthete

31. Sorcerer who lets you choose your death

32. How To Bury A Gentile

34. Old God, Playground Priestess

35. Child Prophet

36. An Understanding Hero

37. The Rich Abandoned the Earth, Get What They Deserve

38.  Welcome to Evil Mart 1 & 2

39. Humanitarian Supervillain 1 & 2

40. The Frog and The Scorpion

41. Zombies as Docile Flowerbeds

42. Avatars of Death and Taxes

43. Heroes vs the Trolley Problem

44. ‘Chosen’ One Knows Takes What They Can Get

45. Vigilante in Jail has No Moral Obligations

46. The Night Gentlemen

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

i have access to powers and locations that he cannot access independently; he needs my help to navigate the world i've brought him to

i simply found him outside and abducted him one day

there are many cats in the world, but this one is the best and my most favorite. why? because he was available to abduct that morning and for very little other reason.

i have a much greater understanding of this world than him, but he has unshakable confidence in his ability to figure it out and i find that really cute

the power dynamic is fundamentally unbalanced, but i let him have a little audacity. a little combativeness and sass. as a treat.

some humans are needlessly cruel to cats or take them in for a short time before neglecting or abandoning them. but i have chosen to love and guard this one with my life. because i think he's neat.

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

genuinely feels like this sums up so many online interactions

Would you like to know what that looks like? Because I've gone through the process multiple times, for example when my grad school fees were raised without warning because even though I'm an EU citizen who grew up in an EU country and was accepted as such to the program, an administrator heard my American accent, demanded my US passport, and changed my status to an overseas student once I was already enrolled and participating in the program which meant I had to pay double the fees I had agreed to, including retroactively. Or, for example, when I had a GP claim I didn't have a chronic condition I had an official medical diagnosis for because she looked at the wrong letter in my file and didn't understand anything about neurology but didn't want to admit she was in the wrong, so she refused to give me a referral I both needed and was entitled to and put in my medical record that I didn't have the chronic condition I very much do and have proof of having. These are the most egregious examples of my experiences, but certainly not the only ones.

Would you like to know what the official complaint process looks like in Britain? You file a letter of complaint with the administrative manager of the institution or office you're complaining against - that's right, a person who's paid by and answers to the people you're raising an issue with. This isn't an HR employee, to be clear - they're the head administrator. In some instances, depending on your burrough, you may be given access to an advisor who can help you put your complaint together at no cost. It usually takes weeks to get an appointment, if not months, because there are so few of them to go around, and tbh they often turn out to be a glorified spell and grammar checker. They don't get involved and serve only in an advisory capacity. (In certain cases, like if you’re in an abusive marriage and can’t afford a divorce lawyer, you may be approved to be entitled to one paid for by the government - this just means you qualify for this support, but there are no actual lawyers available within your city or any other. Only a fraction of legal practices accept cases like this, they often require proof that the government isn’t able to give because somehow documentation of your eligibility isn’t something they provide, and only about two cases are taken on per year in the legal practices that choose to take any on). In some cases, like with a GP, you can have your complaint submitted through the local medical board, but they're just a middleman - they don't get involved either and the complaint is still reviewed by the administrative manager. Inevitably the complaint will be rejected, especially if the concern raised might have serious implications, because it's more than the admin manager's job's worth to throw their own office under the bus.

At this point you can escalate the case to a local ombudsman - a legal practitioner who will do one of two things: either reject your complain on the basis that it's a legal matter which they don't deal with (even though they're a legal practitioner) or on the basis that the office/institution was technically within their legal rights to do whatever shitty thing they did because this country has no constitution and the average citizen doesn't have nearly as many rights as institutions do to avoid transparency. For example, the university that changed my status to rip me off for more fees wasn't just within their rights to do so, but they were not legally bound in any way to disclose this at any point during my application or acceptance process. They were also not legally bound to offer me the option of leaving the program or getting my money back halfway through the term, nor were they legally bound to implement the excess fees beginning the following term. They were fully legally entitled to collect fees retroactively based on a status I did not apply under, did not agree to study under, and they had no responsibility (legally) to disclose in advance that dual citizens may have to contend with such changes. The GP who denied me a referral I needed (and that took two years to finally get because of the note she left in my file) will never experience repercussions because it's near impossible to enact consequences on an NHS employee. You know what I asked for as the outcomes of that complaint? An apology and that her inaccurate assessment of a condition I had multiple pieces of proof of be corrected in my record. She refused both because she knew she didn't have to lift a finger and would experience no repercussions. I have no power to do anything about this legally. I could have gone to a lawyer at my own expense, but let's see how that might have gone:

Last story: I got covid in 2022 and was vulnerable, thus entitled to antivirals. My GP denied me them but I went around them and got to a specialist (still under the NHS) who approved them. My GP refused to give me a prescription (those have to go through GPs usually, as they have to send them to your pharmacy) and denied my having a prescription at all. It's 2026 now and I'm still recovering from the resulting long covid (most studies showed even then that 1. this would happen given my other health conditions and 2. antivirals could significantly reduce the risk of it happening). A year later when I logged into my NHS account I found a prescription for antivirals sitting there, which hadn't been filled (they had been issued during the period when you had to sign up for an NHS account but none of the practices were really using it yet and I didn't even know you could see your prescriptions listed). My GP had denied it existed, but it was right there. Unfilled. I went to half a dozen law firms to discuss suing for malpractice. Not one would take the case because "there isn't enough legal precedent." The laws of this country and implementation thereof are based on precedent, because there's no constitution. Lawyers are hesitant to establish new precedent unless a case is crystal clear - ask a lawyer how often that happens. Nevermind that I had an existing prescription which I was 1. lied to about and 2. denied. That wasn't reason enough to sue apparently. Somehow there wasn't enough precedent even for that.

Do you want to know what action looks like in the UK? This:

This is what hangs up in every doctor's office. The NHS got overwhelmed during and after the pandemic, people started to get frustrated, and the response was to simply threaten them with police action. These are called zero tolerance policies. They've spread from the NHS to any kind of business or institution. If you call the gas company to ask something about your bill, the polite greeting is followed by a stern warning that abuse will not be tolerated. This "abuse" is never defined - if you dig really hard on the company/institution's website, you might find one, but it's specific to them, there's no overarching definition (those that do have one tend to name abuse as a verbal or physical threat to safety but nothing beyond that). This is by design; it allows said institution/company to name something "abuse" as they see fit in a given situation, often in ways that suit their own needs, sometimes in ways that get rid of people who ask too many questions, have too many needs, or express any kind of emotional response to being treated poorly. I have never once seen any indication when faced with a zero tolerance policy warning like the one above, that hangs in NHS waiting rooms, of whether the staff are held to any kind of standard or responsible for adhering to a similar policy themselves. When I've asked, the response has mostly been that they aren't.

I, and many others I've spoken to, have experienced these zero tolerance policies invoked in response to complaining or confusion. Staff treat patients/clients/people poorly, dismissing them, talking over them, interrupting them, refusing to listen to them, and if people respond in kind it's deemed abuse. There's no understanding of neurodiversity, trauma, or other needs, even when you state it or it's in your file. I have a friend who was shouted at by a GP for asking too many questions about why they couldn't get a referral they needed and were entitled to, because even though said friend stated they were autistic, their autism didn't look like the GP's son's autism, and therefore was dismissed. These policies not only enable ableism in harmful ways, they're designed to safeguard staff at the expense of patients/clients, and they don't actually serve to safeguard staff either.

I've asked numerous staff members in various offices and institutions whether they've received any conflict resolution/de-escalation training and the answer is always a resounding "no." They don't have the ability to flag a triggered person and manage the situation, and in fact they often engage in deliberately triggering behavior either without realizing it or because they know they themselves (the staff) won't be the ones to experience consequences. The British way of dealing with a problem isn't to find a solution, it's to tell the problem to shut up and go away. This does a disservice to staff too, btw, because if you're working in, say an NHS office and you talk over and dismiss someone with medical trauma, a neurodiverse condition that affect communication, or mental illness, then it's also to your own advantage to be able to flag the signs of someone being triggered and be able to de-escalate the situation. I've done numerous conflict resolution and de-escalation training courses as an adult and reach all the way back to high school (in the U.S.! Because we actually DO things), and I'm often the one de-escalating situations with UK staff that they 1. triggered 2. escalated, and I do so while I myself am triggered and struggling to regulate my emotional responses. Most people in my position in these situations do not have the training and skills that enable me to do this.

Fun fact: a triggered person doesn't care if you invoke a zero tolerance policy because their frontal lobe is no longer in charge, their fight or flight instinct is. You know what the safety measure taken to respond to this is at my chronic illness clinic? They've stationed an armed security guard by the check-in desk to intimidate patients. They pay a security guard to stand there just to make sure patients don't hold staff accountable for anything (fun fact: I've never shown up at this clinic and not been told incorrect information, or been sent to three wrong desks before finding the right one, etc. One time no one could find my appointment in the system even though I had an appointment letter AND it was clearly displayed on my MyChart account. But god forbid I raise an eyebrow at staff for this, as the security guard watches me with a warning glint in his eye that tells me I should accept the annoyance of staff at me for their own incompetence as I say "thank you sir, may I have another" or else).

Because the onus is always on protecting and perpetuating the institution and its practices, not on the people it's there for.

Because British people don't change. They go out of their way to keep things as they are. Even if it's at the expense of their own staff. Even if it harms the people who are supposedly being helped. Any systems set up to complain and implement positive change are designed to run into a dead end. Sure, Brits might sit around the pub or with a friend and a cuppa and bitch to each other, but nothing ever actually gets done. I've watched in real time as people in this country have floundered because they don't understand the most basic ways to organize even locally for their own benefit.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Install this blocklist using the instructions on the GitHub page. For Firefox, you will need to install uBlockOrigin for this. Google Chrome no longer allows the uBlockOrigin extension, so I'm assuming you're at least primarily a Firefox user - or about to be (see browser alternatives below).

For Google Chrome or mobile browsers, this will work with uBlacklist. See the GitHub page for full details on compatibility.

Remove AI Widgets:

If you go to your uBlockOrigin Filter lists page, you can select to filter out AI Widgets - this should completely remove the 'AI Mode' widget/button from your Google search page, in addition to the work done by the Huge AI Blocklist.

Using the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist filter has made my Google searches look like they used to, and gives me genuine search results.

Look at this. It's beautiful. It's informative. It's not a heap of burning trash bloated with fake information made up by a hallucinating chat bot.

We can go even further: return to the old school search results.

Now, the above results are great and should be free of generative AI junk, but some people would rather not see any of the summary widgets or 'people also ask' box at all. Fear not! You can remove all that by using the 'Web' mode in the Google search bar. Click the 'More' drop down menu and select 'Web'.

Huzzah! Incredible. It's like a functional search engine again.

You can make this the default Google search mode in Google Chrome using Method 1 from this page (https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/). Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to do this in Firefox too. This is why for the most part I still use DuckDuckGo (see below) as my default search engine, and only use Google to supplement my searches on the rare occasion I'm just missing something.

Remember, if you clear your cookies, your search engine preferences will reset, including any settings you enabled/disabled to avoid AI. This applies to DuckDuckGo as well; check your settings every time you clear your browser!

Extra filters (optional):

I've also added four filters (their order doesn't matter) to the My Filters page. Full disclosure: I'm not sure they still work, or may only work on Chrome, but I'm keeping them anyway, just in case.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1i7kg83/comment/m8lllwr/: see which solution in the list works for you, it seems to be different for everybody.

google.*##div[jscontroller]:not(:has(div[jscontroller].YzCcne)):has(.YzCcne)

From https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/:

www.google.com##.Beswgc

www.google.com##.olrp5b

www.google.com##.hdzaWe

Make sure you hit the apply changes button when you add filters.

Browser alternatives: escaping Google Chrome.

If you haven't jumped ship from Chrome yet, I'd recommend doing so. Sometimes Chrome outperforms Firefox for niche purposes or because a website doesn't bother to fully support non-Chrome browsers, but the days of Chrome being the superior browser are long gone — by about 10 years. If you're trying to escape Chromium browsers, beware that a lot of the popular Chrome alternatives are just Chrome in a different hat.

Firefox has been the most popular non-Chromium browser for years, and for good reason. However, the company running Mozilla Firefox has annoyed their users, me included, by refusing to take an anti- generative-ai stance, and even included AI features in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Most Firefox users specifically use it because they hate Google's enshittification and want a privacy-focused, clean browser that doesn't hog their RAM and CPU for no reason. So, you can imagine that Mozilla's attitude has pissed us all off recently. You can turn off the AI features in Firefox with the built-in settings, but the company has recently steered straight into the burning garbage heap by saying they want to make the browser based on AI.

Waterfox and LibreWolf:

There are really good alternatives based on Firefox (open-source) which are not affiliated with Mozilla (the company), if you don't like how it operates. Waterfox and LibreWolf are even more trimmed down and privacy-focused than Mozilla's Firefox, and don't use AI. Anti-ai statements: Waterfox and LibreWolf.

From this page: https://programming.dev/post/42546774

In short: LibreWolf is for those who want a “locked-down” fortress out of the box, while Waterfox is for those who want a privacy-conscious browser that still feels like a normal, convenient daily driver. Choose LibreWolf if: You want the highest level of privacy without having to manually edit config files, and you don’t mind occasionally “fixing” a broken website or re-logging into accounts. Choose Waterfox if: You want a privacy-respecting browser that supports Firefox Sync, has an Android counterpart, and handles streaming sites/logins without any extra friction (it supports WideWine out of the box, which lets you stream DRM protected content (netflix, hulu, disney, etc). — [email protected]

I've heard good things about both of these browsers and will investigate them further to decide whether to personally switch from Mozilla Firefox.

DuckDuckGo:

I would also recommend installing the DuckDuckGo extension to your browsers and setting it to be your default search engine.

I've had DuckDuckGo installed on my browsers, Chrome or Firefox, for like 10 years now. It is a good search engine, it's unobtrusive, and blocks trackers, cookies, and does not save any data about you. I've also used it as my default mobile browser for years, along with Firefox mobile, which you can add the AI Blocklist to (see again the GitHub page). I haven't tried the DuckDuckGo desktop browser yet, but I imagine it works just fine like the mobile version. I think DuckDuckGo's browser is also Chromium-based, at least indirectly. I use Firefox with the DuckDuckGo extension so I can have a widely-supported, non-Chromium browser, but include all of DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking features.

Note: DuckDuckGo has included AI in its browser product, however you can opt-out of all AI features with the built-in settings and they will not push it on you like Google does. I hope they remove AI features entirely in the future, but for now I am comfortable with the barriers in place to keep AI out of my face. Firefox also has AI features like Chrome does, which you can turn off with the built-in settings.

There's also noai.duckduckgo search, an alternative version of its normal search engine which removes AI-generated images and turns off AI results/assists by default. Even though DuckDuckGo's inclusion of any AI features annoys me, its policy to make these features 100% optional builds trust with this browser/extension/search engine.

You can always use Google search if you need to, but with uBlockOrigin and the AI Blocklist filter added on, at least you shouldn't have AI-altered search results or the AI overview anymore.

Other browsers exist, probably:

There are certainly more non-Chromium alternatives out there, but Firefox, Waterfox, and LibreWolf are the top three recommended to me. That link to alternatives, plus this ComputerCity page are the best lists I could find in a brief search. If you google "non-Chromium browsers" you'll get a lot of mixed results which require a bit of digging to realise they're not really recommending you what you looked for at all.

I've heard about Ecosia over the years, and while I like the idea of a search engine that plants a tree for each query, I don't think that's actually what happens — at least, that's what they used to be reputed to do, but I believe that's an unsustainable business model which has likely changed. In 2026, Ecosia says it uses 100% of its profits for the planet and runs its search engine off clean energy. That's cool! It's still Chromium-based. And it also uses generative AI for chat bots, so I don't trust its principles on environmentalism. I need to do more reading on this to form a stronger opinion about it.

I hope this post has helped at least some of you have a better experience browsing the web and googling your questions.

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use -expected_number_of_chapters: 1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

Any time you want help with how to use AO3, look for the question mark bubbles. Clicking or tapping on those bubbles will open up a pop up window with information on that specific part of AO3. For example, here's the information for Include filters.

2. When you log into AO3 for the first time, you'll have a banner on your dashboard that gives you a ton of links and information that's useful for new users. A lot of people will dismiss this banner without ever reading it, but you can get it back at any time.

Go to your Preferences, scroll down to Misc. and check the box next to Turn the new user help banner back on. Update your preferences, and the banner will return.

3. When you first tap or click into the search in the header bar, a little popup tip appears below the text box. This is showing you an example of a search that you can do.

4. If you've never seen the filters before, click or tap on any tag that you're interested in. On a wide screen like a laptop, the filters will appear on the right hand side of the screen. On a narrow screen like a phone, you can tap on the Filters button for the menu to appear.

5. The FAQ has a series of questions related to Searching and Browsing on the Archive. You can find the FAQ in the dropdown under the word About in the header.

6. You can also just click on stuff and see what happens. For example, if you're wondering what the four icons at the top corner of each fic blurb mean, you can just click on them and get a popup with the key. Same thing if you're wondering about the icons at the top right of a bookmark.

7. I almost forgot ☝️If you want to see fics based on the primary pairing but you're okay with additional ships being in the fic (so otp:true won't work for you) - there's a script for that! AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing.

Endlich wissen wir, wie es mit Mikka weitergeht! Mikka entscheidet sich irgendwann mal, sie/ihr Pronomen zu benutzen und stirbt schließlich mit über 80 Jahren.