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you are so right about Olive. RIP olive you were born too soon to be an #influencer. (EXCEPT i wonder if her being very pretty and sought after in the context of a small town would mean she didn't quite hack it--big fish in a small pond kinda thing. Which means she might actually be an "#influencer" with like 2000 followers, half of whom are paid accounts.)

jasper you don’t get to get away with this that easily.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

In honor of Umbra and of Papa's teeth, I decided to round up all of my Creature!V fanfics, including vampires and shapeshifters and cryptids. I have a lot of fic but these are the ones I think count specifically as Creature V.

Sung Me Moon-Struck. Reader/V. Explicit, mildly dubious consent. Someone (or something?) has arrived in the night, and you're not sure if it's real. AO3 only.

Vacancy. Reader insert but could be gen or shippy. You're a stagehand at venue the day after your ex broke your heart. You have a chance encounter in a store room. Tumblr / AO3.

Critique. Reader insert, gen or shippy, whatever. Creature!V has been reading your fanfic and has some Opinions. Intentionally very silly. Tumblr / AO3.

Payback. Reader/V. Explicit, very dubious consent. You did a ritual to capture the strange being that has been lurking, watching you. Now you can do whatever you want to it... Tumblr / AO3.

untitled drabble. Reader/V. Not explicit, warnings are a spoiler tho. V is the perfect partner. Tumblr / AO3.

BONUS:

Your Love, Bright as the Starlight. My first gonst fic ever, 35 chapters, OC/V (also OC/Copia), very explicit. V isn't exactly a creature, but his backstory in here is that he was raised by ghouls and that made him Fucking Weird, and it ends up tying into the plot a bit. AO3 only.

With the addition of

When the Day is Done. OC/Perpetua. Explicit, 30 chapters. Fourth book in my Life After Life series, in which Perpetua is held captive in a small town, and he's Quite Creaturey. AO3 Only.

You mean to tell me that sun twin moon twin literally came into being during the brightest day and came into the world during the darkest?

Repeated eclipse imagery in end of RHRN and throughout Skeleta era suggests connection to an eclipse somewhere that is significant in their lives.

There absolutely was a solar eclipse on March 7th, 1970, and while Los Angeles was not in the path of totality, it would have hit peak coverage (60-70%) between 9 and 10 am.

Sister is heavily implied to be in the early stages of pregnancy during the music video for KTGG, which explicitly says it is taking place on September 13, 1969.

With an estimated hypothetical due date of March 7th, 1970, and an estimated conception range of Midsummer (June 21) 1969, that puts her at almost exactly 12 weeks pregnant during the KTGG performance.

June 21, 1969 to March 7th, 1970 is 37 weeks which is a very healthy average length for a first time twin pregnancy. it is considered full-term.

Some additional things to think about:

Pregnancy tests were most certainly not over the counter in 1969 like they are today. You would have to schedule a visit, confirm it with a urine test, and ultrasounds for this kind of routine use did not yet exist.

For someone like Sister, she most likely did not know she was pregnant even after one or two missed periods. She also may have had irregular periods, had spotting early on. Even today this is very common!

Birth control *was* available in the US from around 1960 onwards. Thanks to Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, it was legal for married couples only, but it was not easy to obtain outside of marriage and still could have been difficult for her to access with tremendous social stigma.

If you think doctors are bad NOW at getting care for reproductive health, HOOO BOY!!

When my mom (an adult woman!) got a BC prescription before getting married they had to call her mom to get permission just in case she was being a WHORESLUT9000.

Also HIPAA wasn't a thing until 1996 you guys, they could do that.

IUDs were still in early development and not as common. Diaphragms were available but again, required fitting and a doctor's visit.

There was tremendous social stigma for single women buying any kind of birth control, whether it was condoms or sponges/spermicide. If they were using any kind of protection at all, it was probably condoms and/or pull-out method. Neither of which are very effective if Satan wants you to have twins.

12 weeks is early enough that feeling movement is not common, but theoretically possible. All of the evidence I have for this is my own experience and documentation on non-Satanic babies, so YMMV. it's Possible! Especially with twins.

Also with twin pregnancies, she probably was showing a little earlier than with a singleton. Nausea, scent sensitivity, etc, can also be higher with twins and hit earlier. Get that ciggie out of my fucking face so help me

Aren't you all so glad to be living when we live holy FUCK

We need to protect birth control rights do you all see how bad it was?? This was not that long ago. Holy shit.

Anyway, Sister watching KTGG, with her hand on her belly, may have been the first moment of feeling movement and realizing what was going on. Realizing, too, that Nihil is fuckwit and her plans are bigger than his, and she had to leave for what she believed was the greater good.

At 12 weeks, with a twin pregnancy and a relatively small frame, Sister would've started to 'show' to those who were paying attention. Now, how much attention Nihil paid is literally anyone's guess given that he was probably stoned out of his fucking gourd like 85% of the time. But if she realized she was going to go through with a pregnancy, she had some reason for him to not know about it. It's possible that this concert, plus the kissing other women thing, led to her finally making that call.

They shared one more night together, probably delighted him by going bareback because it's not like you can get MORE pregnant* and then got the fuck outta dodge.

The symbolism of twins conceived at the longest day of the year only to be born during an eclipse is so mmmm scrumptious delectable absurd

Maybe the next batch of comics will disprove this but until then

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.