@cloymush I can’t believe how unknown this fact is in pop culture. Like, Joker has genuinely been gay since before the west realized being homophobic was bad. He is the only example I’ve ever seen of a POPULAR character from before the 1960’s being queer. Joker isn’t queercoded. There is no code! The man is just straight up queer :blobRave:

@lookitmychicken Soldier through, but no meds. Tbh because I grew up hearing the common cold was incurable, for years I didn’t even know medicine to treat it existed. I just went about my days feeling awful. The only time I stayed home due to a cold was if I also got a fever. Tbh I still don’t know what meds people take for a cold, because I haven’t gotten one since finding out the medicine exists lol

The best [citation needed] ever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_got_your_nose

@lps someone made a list of pros and cons:
https://strangeobject.space/@Kilgallen/110520389961265952

@RL_Dane I’m deleting my comments and posts but keeping my account and logging off. Just in case Reddit changes their mind about the APIs.

However I’m super excited about the traffic boosts #lemmy is getting so I’ll probably be way more active on lemmy regardless lol

@cloymush scripting?? Is that was it’s called? I had no idea that was a thing xD

But yeah I often pause shows to talk to myself about what’s going on, or to replay the scene in my head. It must look insane from the outside but it’s so much fun!

And NO! HE JUST DIED FOR THE LULZ! Not five seconds went by after I unpaused before the dude knocked himself into the afterlife. I was crying of both sadness and laughter because what are the odds??? It happened out of nowhere! He just died :blobStare:

One time I was watching #TheNewsroom and I paused the show to talk to myself about how much I loved this one character. I must have gone on for about 5 minutes just gushing about how great this character was. Then I unpaused the show and he IMMEDIATELY fell over, hit his head, and died.

The next episode was his funeral.

Ngl the majority of what I read is fanfic, unpublished original stories, and bs people write on subreddits like r/HFY. I need to read more published works.

But tbh I love how unpublished works are unfiltered. Untouched by the editors of a publishing company. How authors are free to write what they 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to write without having to keep a target demographic in mind. Without having to censor their story for the sake of being marketable.

And that’s why published stuff can sometimes feel a bit… stale to me. Nothing truly unexpected happens. And I don’t mean that in the plot twist sense. I mean like…

For example:

I just finished reading an unpublished story where the author literally rolled dice to determine if main characters would live or die. Imagine if Rowling rolled dice to see if Harry Potter lived through Book 3. Then if he died, wrote the rest of the series with a different main character.

I arranged the logistical web with the middlemen. I worked out the prices and did the conversions from Rupiah to Yuan to USD.

…for legos.

…for freaking off-brand legos.

What’s wrong with me? (3/3)

…in my defense, LOOK AT HIM:

So I steepled my fingers and thought.

And eventually I thought, “what if shipping to some other country is cheaper?”
So I found a Chinese middleman company, because I know shipping small things from China to the US is pretty cheap— maybe $3-$10. And as it turns out, shipping from Indonesia to China is around $26.

So it’s literally cheaper to ship from Indonesia to China to USA, than it is to ship from Indonesia to USA.

There is a vast market for bootleg LEGO made by Chinese manufacturers. “Bootlegos” don’t just copy LEGO. They come up with their own original designs. Which means there are a ton of minifigures and sets that are AWESOME but totally unavailable on the US market.

Just like LEGO eventually retires its sets, these bootlegos eventually stop being produced too. And me, being late to the party, was devastated to discover that the Robin #BatmanWhoLaughs minifigs were sold out everywhere… (1/3)

…everywhere, except for Tokopedia and Shopee. Which are both Indonesian versions of Amazon. So of course I tried to sign up. Only to discover they don’t take foreign methods of payment. You pretty much need to be in Indonesia to buy from these sites.

So off I went, googling like a madman, to find a random Indonesian person willing to help me out.

And I did! Only to discover that due to the Russo-Ukraine War, shipping even small things like LEGO to the US costs like $60. (2/3)

Came up with the most elaborate backstory for one of my blorbos, complete with OCs, character arcs, and plot. Then accidentally fell in love with two of the OCs, and because they only exist in my head I can’t read fanfiction about them :blobPensive:

Question:
I was never on Twitter enough to know, so can anyone tell me how threadfics work? Are they cross posted to AO3 or other sites, or do they always exist solely in threads?

I ask because I love coming back to my fav fics, and if one of those was a threadfic... how on Earth would I find it again? Do they just get buried in timelines over time, never again to be found? Is that sort of burying intentional? Are there ways to find them again?

How does this work lol

@lookitmychicken posted some, might post more later :)

27 July 1967 by #scioscribe
#JeevesAndWooster
#ReginaldJeeves / #BertramWooster
919 words, rated G
Summary: They decriminalized it today, Jeeves—not that you don’t know that already. I know the dead aren’t supposed to have a jot of knowledge about the world below, but I can’t imagine that goes for you: in fine print of every King James, I’ve no doubt, if closely examined, it says “except for Jeeves.”

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1579745
#DecRecs #FicRec #JeevesFicRec #JoosterFicRec #Jooster #Jeeves

Interference by #Swordfishtrombone84
#JeevesAndWooster
#ReginaldJeeves / #BertramWooster
📞18k, rated Explicit🔞
📞Summary: It is the second night of Mr. Wooster’s absence, and I am sitting in the straight-backed chair in the corner of my bedroom, halfway through both a book and a cigarette. I am startled slightly when the telephone rings.

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1732394
#DecRecs #FicRec #JeevesFicRec #JoosterFicRec #Jooster #Jeeves #PhoneSex #Alcohol #DirtyTalk