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I was backreading one of my tumblr tags looking for a joke, and I refound https://www.spidersge.org/ which is, I promise, not a rickroll.

This DW post has the Spiders Georg reference I was looking for. Since that posting, my friend's partner has gone into remission! Yay!
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I don't know if this post is allowed, I just wasn't sure where else to ask. 

I'm currently working on a Strangers Thing fic. I am very new to the fandom. I'd like someone I can bounce off of, and maybe a beta down the line? It's an AU with a better ending to El's story, giving her what I think she deserved. There might be some Canon Divergence for S4 as well.  The fic is Byler, not Mileven, although she and Mike will remain good friends. 

Any takers? 

Again, Modly Beings, feel free to delete. 
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Posted by Chris Revelle

Netflix's newest Lisa McGee series, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, is an off-kilter dark comedy thriller that is a great, eminently binge-able time. While the dream-like framing suggested weird antics to come, I didn't anticipate the twists and...

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Posted by Mike Redmond

Last week, Deadpool writer Rhett Reese was widely roasted after commenting on a viral AI fight video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. "I hate to say it. It's likely over for us," Reese said, and it didn't take long...

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Suicide and book banning )

checklist

Feb. 20th, 2026 01:07 pm
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 1.
Попасть на концерт Гоголь Борделло я пыталась начиная с 2010-2011 года, возможно раньше.
Каждый раз, когда я покупала билеты или хотя бы пристреливалась -- умирал кто-то близкий или случался иной глобальный пиздец.
Поэтому в декабре билеты покупал Патлатый. У него рука полегче, и карма почище.
Но вчера, целый день, я всё равно ждала, что где-то что-то ёбнет. В концерт-холл заложат бомбу, прилетит стадо зимней саранчи, начнётся третья мировая. Пока нннет, не началось.
И таки шо сказать, дорогая редакция? Ожидание длиной в 15 лет того стоило!
Панки живы, веселы, адекватны политически. Не подвели ни грамулечки.
Сегодня у меня болят шея и ноги, и голос сиплый. Just like the good old days.

А ещё Евгений выкинул все русскоязычные вставки в песнях.
Без "ах подайте нам карету, вот эту, и мы поедем к ебеням" немножечко грустно.
Но зато когда он объявил "this song does not have russian words anymore, heh-heh, you know why", несколько лаптеногов демонстративно изобразили драму и покинули зал.
Ах, какая утрата! Невосполнимейшая.


2.
День святого Валентина мы так-то не празднуем (я в принципе не люблю колхозные праздники и предпочитаю сугубо личные, как-то понятней, что праздновать), но в этом году мы решили, что харэ тянуть и нет в году более подходящего дня, чтобы купить себе настоящий, взрослый матрас.
Гусары, молчать.
НЕ из Ашана, НЕ из Икеи, НЕ из стрёмного постсоветского магазина со стрёмной тёткой. А такой, как в отелях, высокий и прям за деньги.
Больше скажу, он не белый, и не в мерзкий цветочек, а чёрный! вааау
И таки шо сказать, дорогая редакция? Инвестция достойная.
Адекватные жилищные условия в мою жизнь заползают крайне медленно. Вот нормальный матрас случился только в 44 годика, например.
But better late than never, right?


What an Egregious Waste of Potential

Feb. 20th, 2026 01:00 pm
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Posted by Dustin Rowles

I found it curious that A24's promotional push for How to Make a Killing has been so muted, particularly for a movie featuring someone as recognizable as Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley coming off The Substance. The trailer, at least,...

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Posted by Dustin Rowles

This is not our typical format for The Pitt, but there were just so many remarkable moments in this week's episode that I had to catalog them in no particular order (except for number one, obviously). 10. Dr. Robby telling...

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Posted by Andrew Sanford

I'm not usually a big prank guy. I like to make people laugh, but I am not out to make them uncomfortable. However, a few years ago, an older friend (Eric) called me to ask if I wanted to sit...

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Posted by Andrew Sanford

Things change when you get older. Candy starts to taste too sweet (a travesty). Your knees may start to buckle just from walking up a flight of stairs. It becomes harder to lose weight and eercise and hell, when are...

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Posted by Kayleigh Donaldson

Death, taxes, and Bond casting rumours. These are the few constants in life. It is the discourse that fuels us in dry seasons, an endless cycle of speculation that, if nothing else, works as a handy indicator of which white...

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Write 'Em, Cowboys!

Feb. 20th, 2026 02:00 pm
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Posted by Jen

Hey guys, it's time again for our Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry post!

(My apologies in advance to Texas, cowboys, and poetry in general.)

 

Ahem hem hem.

swirling poo vortex
moistly encircles my horse

keep it off the boots.

******

 

There once was a rodeo clown
The best of the whole bunch, hands down.

 

A real Texas Star

 

He's sure to go far

If he'd just stop horsing aroun'.

*****

 

Dangle the Dog's show had to close
The problem? Right under his nose.
Since it's hard to erase
the things on his face...

Now he just does puppet shows.

****

 

Kill.
Kill, kill, kill
KILL!
Killllllllllll....

Kill kill.

*********

 

And for our grand finale, we'd like you to know that John wrote the next one. That's right, JOHN DID IT. So it's not my or Sharyn's fault. We're just saying.

Take it away, John!

 

Once upon a morning dreary, while I sat there, drinking beery,
Thinkin' 'bout this girl I'd ogled at the game the night before.
How we went back to her trailer, thinkin' I was gonna... uh, regale her
Shame she fell into the baler, just below the hayloft door.
"Geez Louise!" I screamed in terror as her bits lay on the floor.
"Now she's boobs... and nothing more!"


Thanks to Jodee R., Erica D., Tug T., Samantha R., Kristen, Emily S., & Willow M. for helping John get that off his chest.

*****

P.S. I see you appreciate poetry. Might I recommend...?

I Could Pee On This, And Other Poems By Cats

This hardcover gift book costs less than $10 and will have your friends feline fine.

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

Remembering Eric Dane (1972-2026)

Feb. 20th, 2026 08:09 am
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Posted by Dustin Rowles

Eric Dane passed away yesterday after a battle with ALS. He announced his diagnosis less than a year ago and had begun experiencing symptoms in early 2024. By June 2025, he'd lost the use of his right arm, and by...

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2026/025: The Dispossessed — Ursula Le Guin

... all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal. [p. 130]

Technically a reread, but when I read this at the age of 14 or 15,  I didn't really understand it: I recalled very little of characters, themes or incidents.

The brilliant physicist Shevek comes to realise that the collectivist society of Annares, a moon colonised by an anarchist movement, is not conducive to his work. He travels to the 'home world', Urras, which is ebulliently capitalist. Eventually he realises that Urras, too, stifles his scientific creativity.

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