EdgeCityRed
9d ago
Criminals vastly outnumber inventive geniuses, and women were barred from equal access to education for centuries.
EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
Weirdly (or, actually...predictably) the last three cars we've owned were the peak popular colors at the time: blue, black, and now dark gray, but we've chosen blue or gray/silver cars forever. Having grown up in a snowy place, I instinctively dislike white cars, because they scream "hard to see against the landscape" and "please deposit mud here."
Fashion is trying to tune people into "dopamine dressing" currently, with fun, bold colors, but people are reacting to actual or perceived economic distress and still choosing Quiet Luxury neutrals; if you can't be rich, as least you can look rich.
Interiors are still in the Magnolia Home modern farmhouse gray and white vice grip, and flipping hasn't helped.
EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
I read it due to the buzz and I have deep regrets.
EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
Cassandra Cla(i)re was well-known in the fandom space. https://fanlore.org/wiki/Cassandra_Claire
EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
Something really amusing regarding Malfoy given your mention of 50 Shades, which was Twilight fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off (meaning the author changed the names to be allowed to publish it as original fiction). There's a Draco/Hermione story that is also being published.
The nearly 16 million individual downloads of the author’s works; the 84,000 likes on Archive of Our Own, aka AO3, where it was first published in 2018; the 19 languages to which it’s been translated; the 71,000 ratings on Goodreads; the 470 million collective TikTok views. The TikTok readers (aka BookTokers) are especially vexed: People are clipping together their emotional states before and after reading — going into it excited and chipper, and finishing with red-rimmed eyes and stifling sobs.
And the latest flick of the wand: SenLinYu, 32, has leveraged all this into a book deal, a reimagined version of “Manacled” that will leave the characters and world of “Harry Potter” behind.
By 2025, the enemies-to-lovers romance centered around Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy will undergo a transformation to become a novel called “Alchemised,” Sen announced Feb. 5. It’ll be a dark fantasy with new characters, published by Del Rey at Penguin Random House in the U.S. and Michael Joseph in the U.K.
The upshot here is that female romance fandom commonly takes franchise characters and smushes them together in transformative works. This is VERY true of Avengers fandom, but a lot of it is slash, because Marvel/Disney are never going to let Cap and Bucky bang onscreen.
Personally, I'm not particularly interested in romance in superhero movies. It feels shoehorned-in.
EdgeCityRed
10mo ago
Well, they're not condemning Trump for pardoning Kushner's dad and then naming him to the post of Ambassador to France.
EdgeCityRed
11mo ago
Spotify researches the playlists that users make and will make similar ones. This is something I've noticed over the years; it's just serving a userbase, because some people won't bother to actually create themed playlists but will search for them. For example, I've made a playlist or two for (NFL) football season, and if I enter "football" it shows me a Spotify-created list called Hype Football Mix. There's a Vampiric Mix (which is actually garbage) because I've favorited some user's playlist to make fanvids for an Anne Rice series. Most of these are probably AI-driven.
EdgeCityRed
11mo ago
Precisely. That's a tomorrow problem when you're in that state.
EdgeCityRed
11mo ago
If Muslims were making laws aimed at me, I'd care more about what they do.
Most people don't care about others' personal beliefs, as long as they don't affect people who don't believe the same things.
EdgeCityRed
11mo ago
The trans fantasy - and this part is true for both AGP and HSTS - is to be a 95th percentile hotness woman. The rest of womanhood or womenfolk don’t concern them or factor into it at all.
I can see the appeal of transitioning to become male (if the button-push scenario were real versus hormones and surgery); menstruation is a horrid, annoying hassle at best, pregnancy and childbirth can have severe deleterious effects on the body, and men don't have to be very concerned about aging, because their eye wrinkles and gray hair are viewed as distinguished and not extinguished by society. Men who go overboard with botox and surgery come off kind of sad. Wearing makeup and cute outfits are the FUN part of being female.
But if I were to transition, I wouldn't look like George Clooney; I have female hips, testosterone can cause baldness, and I'm 95th-percentile female tall, but as a man, I'd be average. It's shallow of me, maybe, but I don't see a point to doing it without a serious gender dysphoria element if you're not going to pass easily and end up hot.
EdgeCityRed
11mo ago
His family here in Florida have tens of millions of dollars. This grift would seem...unnecessary.
EdgeCityRed
11mo ago
Donating blood also helps lower your microplastics levels (and donating plasma is even better!) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/
You photocopy these documents. You can leave a copy in the hotel safe (if you're not leaving your original passport in there). You should also keep phone numbers handy: your credit card company, for one, though you can probably google that. I have Amex and the concierge had my phone I'd left in a rental car FedExed to me. That's the card provider I prefer for service like that. They will also wire you money and find you a lawyer or directions to a consulate. https://www.americanexpress.com/content/dam/amex/us/credit-cards/features-benefits/PGA_Benefit_Guide_Rev_09-17-final.pdf
You can black out anything sensitive like your SSN, etc. if you put copies of things like this in your luggage.
Also, get luggage tags. A big, colorful tag is extremely handy at airports anyway if you have nondescript black bags that look like everyone else's at the carousel. Mine is a large lime green circle tag.
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