I know I alluded to it last night (I think) but are any TROP fic writers getting an insane amount of guest activity on their fics, I mean compared to usual? My latest oneshot, basically half the kudos is guests! It's kinda making me worry it is bots 😭

lol, because I bought a light kit from Game of Bricks I'm now a member and I automatically get entered into a prize draw and this month it's for... LEGO Barad-dûr and light kit 😂

I love that the image strongly suggests that at some point in their chequered history Bilbo and Gollum solved crimes together, and that Bilbo was the maverick and Gollum did things by the book.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5h ago

Oh no, he's hot! https://kotaku.com/the-hobbit-magic-the-gathering-bilbo-baggins-2000721931

You know I don't use AI to write my fics because I've got about five things half written and none of them published, and then I take weeks to update on AO3 anyway... and then I miss that I randomly changed tenses in the middle of some smut. Embarrassing.

- 3 - but make it tea for me. - Mainly 3 with a tiny bit of 4. - 1 - if this is an actual steak (other meats vary) - and btw, my husband would gladly simply walk a cow past a radiator/fire and then serve. (All personal preference though innit. I'm not reddit!)

Frieren, 🏳️‍⚧️ Tiefling Princess@fes4ever.northsky.social · 22h ago

For those that need alt text

Honestly, by this point in the TV show, I think like... 80% of the reason I'd still answer "Team Black" if a gun were put to my head is Caraxes tbh.

If I could break into my work system without it resulting in a disciplinary and uninstall Copilot I would do it yesterday. I can write my own emails and papers because I’m not incompetent.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 16h ago

I have one answer.

Did a game at my community cafe this morning. Scottish place names for every letter of the alphabet. I did very well apparently 😁

Regular intrusive thought in the Seeley/Uni library…

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Gonna be vulnerable again. I will admit that yes, sometimes I have wondered why ‘big’ accounts won’t read my fics and it’s all got tied up in worrying my writing/plots suck (or people are making judgements based on one sided accounts of things.) I may not have a huge readership but I have this.

Internet is basically making me the biggest Benny Safdie as Agamemnon defender ngl.

Oblig "don't let this rule your life" of course, but one of my fics is so close to 100 bookmarks now (that'll be a first for me) I'm kinda invested lmao 😭

VERY rough as not all the dialogue is filled in and I'm sleepy, but... ring forging brainworms starting to take shape/what if A*azon hired ME to write TROP S3? (Btw this snip is a Sauron multiship checkpoint. I very respect peaceful mono and multishipping, but please don't yell.)

Annoyingly my brain keeps going: probably just bots 😭

Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍@catherloki.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don’t think I’ve ever had so much guest kudos on a Haladriel fic in such a short window. We are so back (as are curious readers without an account/shy readers 😂)

I don’t think I’ve ever had so much guest kudos on a Haladriel fic in such a short window. We are so back (as are curious readers without an account/shy readers 😂)

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Gonna be honest, I think with all the (usually) absolute shit we have put up with from racists and people who really should just stick to reading the books, there IS a tendency for Rings of Power fandom to over-correct sometimes but I very agree four women in the S3 cast is not a good look 🫤

Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of

Present me hates past me for being so mentally sore that there's now a big comment backlog in my AO3 inbox and I'm outta steam tonight 🙃

Just here for Godzilla but it's just here for the dragons instead.

Why do they never do this about all the other social media websites, which are basically conservative algo-assisted echo chambers? (I know why lol.)

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

Damn, it took me a month to read a 400 page book. I actually enjoyed it but my brain just wasn't able to do more than 20 pages whenever I tried to read 😭

The car has been beaten into submission by us going, "here - damn!" and putting a wee bit of air in the front tyres and then just resetting the tyre pressure bit on the console.

Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍@catherloki.bsky.social · last wk.

Always love my car warning me a tyre has lost pressure right in the middle of a motorway drive 🙃

The amount of times I've done a non-linear narrative in a Haladriel fic is surprisingly quite a lot... if I could come up with enough to do a non-linear narrative in an original work I'd be unstoppable (annoying.)

Even when we’re on a website where hardly anyone has mentioned anything to suggest there’s a “crash out” and most of us are just chilling with all the other fans, people are obsessed with bringing us up 😭

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

If “good riddance” seems harsh to you, read this.

Sam@samomar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here's some of his work

Someone has followed me on tumblr and like spammed my blog (which I don’t mind, I love that!) but they’re clearly following me for Loki and atm when that happens I’m always a bit… oh welcome, but I’m sorry you’re *actually* gonna see a lot of Elf-posting and Dark Lord shenanigans 😂😭

Seen some batshit insane supposed leaks about Loki, but because this is the MCU in the 2020s (“panicking! We need to course correct and fanservice the shit outta all this!”) I’m half expecting they’re real.