The people of West Ham often forgot that Allie Pressman and Sam Eliot were cousins. Actually, the people of West Ham usually forgot about them period. If they did think about them, it was only ever as Cassandra’s sister and the deaf kid, not as actual people. But Sam and Allie had grown up together, they were cousins, they understood each other in a way that no one else could. Sam knew how Allie both loved and hated the relative safety of Cassandra’s shadow, knew how easily her parents overlooked her in favour of their perfect, and sick, eldest daughter. Allie knew how Sam felt like his parents never saw beyond his deafness and sexuality, and just how terrified of his brother he really was. But they weren’t just cousins — after all, Cassandra and Campbell were their cousins too. No, Sam and Allie were best friends and had been for their entire lives and that? That changes everything.
Welcome to my The Society fic series, City Is A Graveyard! Who We Were Then is the first of five fics in the series, and it’s a pre-canon AU in which Sam and Allie are best friends as well as cousins! Basically, it was born from me going (and I quote) “Listen you’d can’t give me a traumatized teenager with sibling issues and imposter syndrome and a traumatized teenager who’s gay and deaf and have them be family and expect me to care about anything else ever”, especially when you throw in Lord Of The Flies on top of that!
Rest assured, Becca is still the iconic best friend we know and love (to both Sam & Allie), Will is still one of Allie’s closest friends, Grizz is always everyone’s favourite, and we’ll still have plenty of pre-Hallie goodness (leading into full Hallie in later fics), but I was disappointed by how few fics I could find that really explored the Pressman-Eliot family, so here we are!
I will eventually make introductions for each fic in the series (and hopefully I’ll get to writing it soon), but here’s a breakdown of the plan for anyone who’s interested
Who We Were Then — pre-New Ham, some of Sam and Allie’s childhood but mostly focused on their junior year leading up to getting on the busses in 1x01; pre-Hallie & Grizzam
Fear Can’t Hurt You Anymore Than A Dream — no New Ham AU, where the students come back from a camping trip and the world is exactly as they left it, will follow the end of their junior year into senior year; eventual Hallie & Grizzam
Maybe There Is A Beast (Maybe It’s Only Us) — canon AU, the kids get off the busses in New Ham, exploring how a closer bond between Allie & Sam (and how that changed their junior year) would change the events of the show; still eventual Hallie & Grizzam
It Sounds Better Than It Is, This Business Of Surviving — post canon, the kids make it back to West Ham and have to find a way to return to ‘normal’ after everything they’ve been through; Hallie & Grizzam
We Are The Kids That You Can Never Kill — post canon, the kids make it back to West Ham only to find that everyone who died in New Ham woke up back in West Ham at their exact time of death, now they all have to return to ‘normal’ surrounded by people they’d mourned and people they’d killed; Hallie & Grizzam
I’m very excited about this project and will definitely be trying to make more edits & posts about it (and hopefully writing it lmao) so if you’d like to be tagged in anything for it, feel free to let me know!
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all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again
No, no, no... she wasn't poisoning thrm, she was giving them a "potion" that would make them appear very ill for a while so that they would be eligible for skipping military service.
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From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!
Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?
I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.
I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods.
The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"
The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.
HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.
So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.
"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.
Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.
This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
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I have a medical condition where no matter how many people are in a room I will find the one person who likes me the absolute least and become desperate for their approval
I spoke to the doctor about this and she prescribed 100mg of "stop giving a fuck about people who hate you", hiding it in a spoonful of peanut butter labeled "the people who care about you deserve more of your time"
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‘No!’ said Aragorn, taking his hand and kissing his brow. ‘You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!’ Boromir smiled.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
#purely re: the movies this is the moment #the moment aragorn actually becomes king in exile instead of just some guy in exile #before this point it was a hypothetical right or inheritance that he was choosing not to ‘collect’ for a variety of reasons #but as boromir acknowledges him it’s all over #he’s king #and it’s not about aragorn ‘choosing’ #it’s about being chosen by someone else
