the hedgehog can never be buggered at all

I was watching Starships, as you do, and had the thought that surely someone must have made a similar style fanvid for horses.

Many fruitless searches later, I found myself here.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it

Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.

Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist

Drift down into the new dark light Without any reservations You found my breaking point Congratulations Spent too much of my life now trying to play fair Throw my better self overboard, shoot at him when he comes up for air

what gets me is that the show rarely questions the system itself. instead, it keeps presenting magic users as the villains. almost every major antagonist is someone who uses magic, and their desire for justice or revenge inevitably gets twisted into a lust for power. meanwhile, the only "good" magic users are Merlin or people who are willing to help Merlin. if you're using magic against Camelot, you're evil. if you're using it to protect Arthur and preserve Camelot, you're good.

and then there's the ending. Merlin kills Morgana, and Arthur says, "You brought peace to this land." peace? the land where magic users were hunted and executed for years? the implication is that peace comes from killing the woman who fought back against that oppression rather than dismantling the system that created her in the first place. it's such a bizarre conclusion because Morgana didn't just wake up one day and decide to be evil—she was betrayed, manipulated, isolated, gaslit, and lived in constant fear because of who she was.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Our Vampire Lestat episode 3 recap is live! 🩸✨ It's a big episode—and @hellotailor has written a big analysis to match. You can read or listen to an audio version via the link above.

Nicki, Magnus, and the characters' differing narratives of/framings around sexual assault. After two episodes of artifice and endless diversions, Lestat's armor starts to truly crack: