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✉️ couriersdaily

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#diversity win??? #woahhh I forgot about him #this is how I found out. I hate it here #this is the end of the ethuveraz and a disgrace to his late serenity's memory #woaw #ENJOY BEING A BARIZHAN COLONY THOU ELVISH BASTARDS #prev: well no bc it's not like the great avar gaf about him either #who the fuck is archduke maia??? #aww he's only 18 :( #is he the one everyone says is crazy.....? #this is like a wonder tale talk about a comeback #this is a disaster #COOL #ok I guess #EMPRESS CHENELO AVENGED‼️ #dost thou think we can pray in the bariheise style now #I have never heard of this man before in my life

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😎 aveyyyyio

Edrehasivar better than me coz if I'd been in relegation my whole life in genteel poverty with some random and my whole family hated me or didn't gaf about me and I never got formally presented at court and everyone said I was mad or inbred I would have ascended to the throne and started killing everyone responsible

❤️ silmaroperas

op I see thine point but most of the people responsible are very much now dead. like that literally is how we got here

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Anonymous said:

Prince Idra is the rightful Emperor

⚰️ witnessforthedeadfandoms answered:

Oh so thou'rt massive on child cruelty and the death of child emperors??? that's what thou'rt saying?? thou wants Prince Idra to be a child emperor and then be murdered by a power hungry regent?? wowwwwwwww #problematic

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Anonymous said:

suspicious that the Emperor and his other sons ALL got taken out at once, leaving the throne clear for Archduke Maia, no?? Like it's.... Convenient. Wouldn't you say

⚰️ witnessforthedeadfandoms answered:

Not really no

#thou didst all jump like fleas to the next conspiracy I see 🙄

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⚔️ valmatasreturn reblogged courtpollsandbrackets follow

who should be chosen as edrehasivar vii's empress

paru tethimin

csethiro ceredin

loran duchenin

(propaganda under the cut)

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#so is this how the corazhas make decisions now or??? #anyway. CSETHIRO SWEEP

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🤲🏻 honourofcsethio follow

tbh we think everyone saying that edrehasivar is going to be a disaster of an emperor is being really fatalistic... like YEAH he looks like a panic attack had a wish granted to be a real boy but we think he can do some real good :(

🕰️ likeclockwork

lol sorry but that skinny kid would have to bridge the istandaärtha to win my confidence

🕰️ likeclockwork

BY ANMURA

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❗imperialcourtnews

🚨| As agreed by the Corazhas this morning, Dach'osmin Csethiro Ceredin is engaged to the Emperor Edrehasivar VII and will become Empress Csethiro, Ethuverazid Zhasan

#edit: please stop tagging this 'can Edrehasivar fight' someone's gonna construe it as a threat on the Emperor's life and things have been tense enough lately #second edit: WE GET IT, A LOT OF THEE HAD A CRUSH ON HER AT LEAST THOU DOST GET TO SEE HER ALL THE TIME NOW

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🎶 operasdaily follow

Opera of the Day: The Autumn Archduke is an old warhorse by Ebrezhanar. It concerns the sudden ascension to the throne of the Archduke Aizhevea (later Edrethelema III) after the tragic deaths of his father, older brother, and his sister's son in a fire at the imperial palace. It maps the early years of his reign, including how the incident partially inspired his designs for the new structure of the Untheileneise Court. It was popularly performed in Lohaiso ten years ago, but has not been significantly revived since this period.

👁️ akhalarnaseyeball

this happened to my buddy Edrehasivar Zhas

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🪻lazinessoftanvero

scream apparently in the flop coup they tried to send the emperor to be a votary of csethio??? this just in, 'get thee to a nunnery' is NOT just for noblewomen #equality

🪻lazinessoftanvero

reading through the whole report on the attempt now and losing my shit... skill issue of the highest level imagine thy coup fails because thy 14 year old prince and 18 year old emperor unionise against thee and thou cannot do shit because teenager 1 and teenager 2 are the two most powerful men in the court... biggest cringefail coup of all time

#say the prayer of compassion for the dead for chavar and sheveän's egos because they won't survive this

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😎 aveyyyyio

anyone else think the couriersdaily account is kinda being really excessively hype about eshevis tethimar getting killed in that assassination attempt. like... real, but also. diva... the attempt on the emperor's life......

#though I presume if they're shitposting the emperor is probably fine #given couriersdaily is almost certainly run by... Thou Knowest... #maybe it's like a diary for them #all the shit you can't say on the day job mer ai-- I mean couriersdaily?

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😎 aveyyyio reblogged couriersdaily

⚜️ odris84-blog follow

this is so fucking disrespectful... we don't know what we expected from baseborn couriers like thee but eshevis tethimar was a respected member of the tethimada whatever he ALLEGEDLY tried to do to the emperor. now he's in ulis's hands so thou shouldst really at least TRY to have some dignity and compassion

✉️ couriersdaily

#see???? #btw don't open the notes it's the archipelagar wars in there

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🫀 zhelsu-no34

Othala Celehar: h-

Me:

#prelate of ulis... a good one... looks good in the coat of office...

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🗣️ untheileneisecourtconfessions

went on a date with some random osmer and he admitted to having some tiny part in the tethimadeise conspiracy to try and impress me and idk if he was lying or not but he was pissing me off so I called the untheileneise guard on him and ate his dessert once they hauled him off lol

#plus I go to salons with the zhasan sometimes #and I think she would have snapped my head off my neck if she'd found out he said that and I did nothing

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🌽 orshansmazei reblogged amalomemes

#he comes into the sanctuary I work at and walks around in circles sometimes #he looks haggard too. poor thing 😭 #I know someone at the laundresses who is convinced he only has one coat

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taraljc

myfootyrthroat

Putting a bloody lace handkerchief in my back pocket to indicate that I'm into Victorian tuberculosis roleplay.

earhartsease

conspicuous consumption

myfootyrthroat

Goddamnit.

taraljc

@lemonsharks look what joyous bounty I have brought you!

taraljc

m0thmancore

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

m0thmancore

oh no! i dropped this screenshot that explains how to bypass this with a free adblocker! you shouldn’t reblog this or anything; it’d be terrible if people used this advice to watch ad-free youtube!!

sparklecryptid

bixels

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

alexseanchai

jartita-me-teneis

alexseanchai

What are these and what are they for, please?

naresar

Look like various forms of wall anchor, not sure if the specific types have names (they probably do). Idea is that they are used to mount something to a wall where a screw by itself wouldn't stay in the drywall (or other thing wall material). Basically I need to put a screw here but behind here isn't a stud. Also this video doesn't show it but the idea is that you first drill a hole in the wall big enough to fit the wall anchor through, and then as you tighten the screw, it causes the anchor to expand and keep the whole unit from being ripped out.

alexseanchai

neat! thank you

lumeh

Important addition that, while the action of these anchors are fascinating, the important thing to know is their holding weight. The visualization here lets you see why and how they can hold more weight than just a screw or bolt alone, but it’s still important to pay attention to the type of anchor you are using when mounting something and making sure it can hold the amount of weight needed. Hardware stores should have a weight rating listed on the product.

It’s good practice to err on the side of a heavier weight rating than expected. No need for overkill (those metal anchors are generally used for heavy ceiling mounts or really heavy wall mounts) but going a size up if you aren’t exactly sure of the weight load is a good idea.

If you’re mounting anything that’s expected to undergo regular strain (i.e. something non-decorative like a swing or a cat shelf) take the time to find a stud, because drywall will wear out over time even with anchors and should not be relied upon to support repeated stress. The last thing you need is your entire drywall anchor popping out and taking everything attached with it.

alexseanchai

thesunnahthebetter

asking "wait so what do you think I'm saying" mid-disagreement will replenish years of your life actually

bigtasty

PLEASE do this ohmygod. it's saved so many days of the silent treatment for me on both ends. yes there is the chance that the person is immature as fuck, and refuses to believe you when you explain what you're actually trying to say, but most of the time just hearing that explanation from both parties will make things instantly calm down.

darkshrimpemotions

Yes!! You can also say "okay hang on...this is what I'm hearing...is that what you mean?" from the other end. Especially if the message you're hearing is hurtful and coming from a person who generally does not try to hurt you. Words have so many connotations, and everyone brings their own perspective and baggage to conversations. Checking in that you're sending the message you mean or receiving the message they mean can stop so many fights before they even start.

alexseanchai

status-quo-hater

I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic

status-quo-hater

"I love autistic people" until the autistic person speaks too loud and you think they should be mocked because they didn't perform a social interaction correctly

here-there-were-dragons

"aUtIsM dOeSn'T mAkE yOu An AsShOlE!!!1!1"

status-quo-hater

"You can't blame everything on your autism you're just being an asshole"

Actually yes I can. Most of the time people think I am being an asshole/rude/insensitive because I use the same cadence for everything because it is the one I know best (monotone, and often interpreted as slightly sarcastic), I learned to speak mostly by mimicking my father. I talk like that because I have autism. I also have trouble determining what to say to people who are upset, and I often end up making it worse because of my low empathy, even though I genuinely care I often come off as accidentally antagonistic. (An example that comes to mind is sending a friend in elementary school pictures of cute dogs to cheer them up after their dog unexpectedly died in a freak accident. This did Not help.)

So yes I literally can blame "being an asshole" on my autism. If I said something wrong, maybe tell me what I did so I can avoid it? Idk. I guess I'm just a Rude Unpleasant Person Forever.

overclockedopossum

Honestly if someone can't distinguish "good intentions but struggling to communicate" from "being an asshole" that's a them problem not an autism problem. It's amazing how allistic people are sooooo good at empathy right up until an autistic person is obviously trying their fucking best and might need a crumb of support to be understood.

transgenderfivepebbles

teaboot

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

sheilikhal

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

mursejesse

mage-ical-character-person

I can’t explain why this image is so funny to me but it is.

forthegothicheroine

Is this Interview with the Vampire?

mursejesse

...technically, yes.

vaders-georg

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

vaders-georg

the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves

vaders-georg

i regret to inform both you beautiful people that this isn’t going to go how you think it will

vaders-georg

alt: tag that reads "she owns 2 star destroyers". end i.d.

spiff fans (also known as “spiffies”) insist that the two decommissioned venator-class destroyers spiff purchased, the bad blood and the reputation, are for diplomatic purposes that benefit the rebellion. jedi’lors have concocted theories that she served on both ships during the clone wars and was respectful of every clone that served there, despite her courtship of a gravball player that thrice advocated against the clone veterans being granted natural citizenship

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🪐chirodactylmanisagatewaydrug Follow •••

all goofing aside I don't understand the urge to reimagine Tay'lor Allisoarn Spiff as a secret Jedi fighting for the rebellion when the rebel alliance is literally like overflowing with women fighting the empire. Gara and Ke'Cha and Mileu and Halcey are right there. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't like Taylor but why would you hang all your hopes of taking down the empire on her

🤖 thedroidteer-andthegarbagecompactor Follow

Isn't Lady Gara a force sensitive?

🪐chirodactylmanisagatewaydrug Follow

Hence why I put her in the list of famous force using women who are in the rebel alliance?

(okay ignore the fact I've put an image in here but this is ops icon)

🪐chirodactylmanisagatewaydrug Follow

#im sure op has this post muted by now but Ur icon is so real op

The icon is because of this post

👤Eelinrmalice-deactivated201X023

btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik tay'lor spiff is a jedi but like. why is she y'all's only force using rebel icon when there are all these other force users in the rebellion???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

🪐chirodactylmanisagatewaydrug Follow

Hi OP here I most CERTAINLY DID NOT SAY TAY'LOR SPIFF IS A JEDI???

(based on this post)

vaders-georg

alt: tags from @batmanisagatewaydrug that read "#wow my impact"

thegeekylady52

you wouldn't believe who showed up in today's Jango Fett comic issue

(Jango Fett #4 by Ethan Sacks and Luke Ross)

vaders-georg

head in my hands. she looks so much like the design i made too

image: waist-up portrait of a yellow twi'lek woman in her early thirties, who has a mild facial resemblance to taylor swift. she has light yellow, blobby tattoos on her face, shoulders & lekku; the forehead tattoos echo the appearance of straight bangs. she is wearing bright red lipstick and a black-and-red jumpsuit that looks like one taylor wore while on tour, as well as a gold cuff around one ear cone. end i.d.

ekingston

SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using

his dyslexia;
his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and
a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there.

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain;

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again.

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)

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Fic: Tea for Two

The third yuletide fic I wrote was a treat for a pinch-hitter, which was an excuse to write Wimsey fic. Now, I love the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, but I have only once been brave enough to write Peter himself--and that was only for a few scenes in a crossover. I minored in English, but that is simply not enough to give one the depth of knowledge of pre-20th-century British literature that one needs to be able to write Peter, who drops allusions and quotes like nobody's business. I spent so much time doing keyword searches through poetry archives, it was ridiculous. So instead, I wrote about Harriet and Mary, who I think would get along well together.

But in the course of doing canon review, I looked for a timeline, and discovered that Mary is much older than I thought she was--she's only five years younger than Peter! He, the Dowager Duchess, and the narrative all treat Mary like she's some silly young girl in Clouds of Witness, and she's actually 28! She and Parker don't marry until she's 35! She's older than Harriet! She served as a nurse in WWI, and she was old enough that she might have served in France itself! (Younger women were only allowed to nurse in British hospitals.) That changed a lot about how I saw her and interpreted the few scenes she's in, and also changed how I saw her and Parker's relationship. I now headcanon that the reason it took so long for Mary and Parker to marry is that at first he was hoping she'd grow out of her radicalism, and she wasn't willing to marry him on that basis, and also had to work out if she was okay with someone as socially conservative as Parker is. Which left them with some things to work out.

Title: Tea for Two
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Characters: Harriet Vane, Mary Wimsey
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Written for: tucuxi in Yuletide 2024
Rating: Gen

On Dreamwidth. At AO3. At Squidgeworld. On pillowfort.

Harriet regarded the invitation with some suspicion. She had resolved to put Lord Peter—and all the tangle of gratitude, resentment, and admiration he provoked in her—out of her mind, at least for now. He was out of town, on a case, and Harriet had rather been hoping to use the time to settle her mind a bit.

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beatrice-otter

The Prisoner

In addition to writing for Yuletide, I also wrote a treat for startrekholidays! Because DesertVixen asked for Ro Laren and Benjamin Maxwell, and it really caught my attention. (Maxwell is the captain whose family was killed by Cardassians during the war, and so he goes rogue and takes his ship into Cardassian space to prove that they're rebuilding, and Picard et al have to go round him up and bring him back to Federation space under arrest, despite knowing that Maxwell is right.) It's a great episode, and DesertVixen is right that they have some interesting commonalities. However, when I looked at the ways she suggested they might meet, I realized that the obvious way was none of those, but rather in prison, because "The Wounded" (Maxwell's ep) takes place a couple of years before "Ensign Ro," where Ro is introduced.

Title: The Prisoner
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: TNG
Characters: Ro Laren, Ben Maxwell
Written for: DesertVixen in Star Trek Holiday Exchange 2024

On Dreamwidth. At AO3. At Ad Astra. At Squidgeworld. On pillowfort.

They didn't get many new prisoners, so each one was big news.

Laren heard there was a shuttle scheduled while she was in the gardens. It was her turn to turn the compost pile.

"Olwen said it was an admiral, someone really high up," Sime said. Sime was an engineer who'd somehow managed to hide a gambling addiction until he'd gotten in hock to the Orion Syndicate—and then, instead of coming clean to his superiors and asking for help, tried to clear his debts by selling information that had led to the deaths of half-a-dozen Starfleet officers, and the enslavement of four civilians. Laren despised him, but then, she didn't like many people.

"It's probably just a lieutenant commander who got caught selling Starfleet equipment to Ferengi," Laren said dismissively.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

the goblin emperor dashboard simulator

Fic: Tea for Two

The Prisoner