This seems to be a thing all the cool kids are doing for Dreamling week this year, so I will join in! These are (nearly) all Dreamling stories and series, with exactly one that is totally gen.

Standalone stories:

To Be Brand New (141k, 25/25, Canon-Divergence/Fix-It, De-Aging)

When Two Become One (33k, 7/?, Canon-Divergence/Fix-It, Arranged Marriage)

No Better to Be Safe Than Sorry (3k, Daydreaming PWP)

Which Betokeneth Concorde (1k, Dancing, Sort of)

A Worthy Gift (1k, Gift-giving fluff)

Form and Function (5k, Dream’s shapeshifting genitals PWP)

(Everything Looks Worse) In Black and White (2k, Angst and fluff)

Beans on Toast (3k, Domestic PWP)

Welcome Little Stranger (2k, Nightmarish Mpreg-ish PWP)

Held Now by This Love (6k, Bondage PWP)

The Weather Outside Is Frightful (3k, Rainstorm Hurt/Comfort)

Introduction to Goncharov Studies (2k, Tumblr Nonsense PWP)

A Dream of Unusual Size (3k, Dream shapeshifting shenanigans)

An Endless End (3k, Gen! Also Major Character Death! But nice!!)

Licking the Spoon (9k, Touch-Starved PWP)

Series:

The Nightmare Apocalypse (And Everything After)

Everything That Falls Down Eventually Rises (9k, apocalypse)

The Death of a Certain Nightmare (1k, sorry Corinthian)

A Well-Ordered Love Story

Five Stars (4k, Human AU grocery delivery meet-cute)

There Are Rules (5k, relationship negotiation)

You Are Safe (You Know, Now) (13k, birthdays and Christmas)

Never Refuse You

1. Rock Bottom of a Hallowed Ground (20k, 1689 canon divergence)
2. A Symbol of Your Exegesis (4k, post-1689)
3. A Salutary Effect (8k, 1789)
4. Traces of Your Lifeblood Flowing (7k, 1889)
5. SOS from an Outpost There (11k, 1920s)
6. Tell Me I’m Dream, Dream, Dream, Dreaming (7k, 2021)

A Condition of Complete Simplicity (Costing Not Less Than Everything)

1. England and Nowhere (Never and Always) (37k, kidfic AU)
2. Down the Passage We Did Not Take (7k, more kidfic AU)

Retired Dream (feat. Time Blindness and Other Challenges)

1. Adaptive Tea Making (2k, making tea)
2. Such a Gorgeous Sight (2k, midnight snacks)
3. The Second Drawer (2k, sex toys)
4. The Kind of Human Wreckage That You Love (6k, necrophilia)

Dream Problems

1. Lying in Wait (2k, Dream fantasizes in the fishbowl)
2. Having a Nice Problem (8k, Dream meets up with Hob)
3. The Keeping of Promises (9k, belated aftercare)
4. Texting of a Sexual Nature (2k, beginning a relationship)

cheese-grater-terminator-deacti:

sirmanmister:

anotherknifeinmyhands:

THE LICE ONE IS MAKING ME FUCKING CRY OH MY GOD

abwatt:

batboyblog:

saanphoenix:

captainjonnitkessler:

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on

Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.

Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.

This is also true of the Democratic Party btw. People are always complaining about what “The Democrats” should do, or aren’t doing etc etc.

but like literally in my early 20s I started going to my local party’s meetings regularly and with-in a few months they were like “hey you want to be on the committee to re-write our by-laws?” yes, yes I do thank you. “hey you want to get elected to be one of our representatives to the meetings of the state party?” why yes thank you so I got to go and debate the budget of a swing state Democratic Party.

I had to move for work not that much after that but like people I know from that have been delegates to the DNC, have elected officials come to their homes for events. Literally there’s a middle aged lady I know who when Hillary Clinton decided to run for President, Hillary started with a small tour on a van, she called it her Scooby Van, and her first stop in New Hampshire, with its “first in the nation” primary was to a bakery in my home town and the person she sat with at what was her first or second official campaign stop of her run for President is a lady I know who isn’t some super secret Democratic overlord or anything but a local lady who volunteers a lot.

Just the other day I got invited to meet my Senator (again) tomorrow I’m going to meet my state’s governor (again) because I volunteer, if I wanted I could likely get to be a delegate to the DNC

so many organizations are open doors that people just refuse to push and then are big mad it didn’t read their minds and do what you think.

I live in a town of 960 people, and four years ago I ran for an open seat on the Library Board; within three months I was chairing the board because the lady who was the chair had been doing it for 14 years and she wanted a break. Someone also threw my name in the ring to be on the school board; another candidate won the seat that time.

In my first three years on the library board, we

• a) lost a librarian to a car accident,
• b) hired an interim librarian,
• c) hired a permanent librarian,
• c) wrote an anti-censorship policy,
• d) balanced the library budget three years running,
• d) started a Friends of the Library group,
• e) organized our social media campaign,
• f) joined the statewide electronic catalog, and
• g) quadrupled our library membership.

So when I ran for library board for my second term, I got voted in with 100% of the votes cast… and I also won an open seat on the school board as a write-in candidate with 19 votes; and I lost an election to the Select Board (our ‘mayoral’ system is a 3-person board) by just 38 votes out of 450 cast.

So now I’m solving library problems on the one hand, and solving school board problems on the other hand. It’s an education in educational policy and finance — federal and state aid programs, local policy on athletics and sports and core education vs arts funding, union negotiations, and more. If I ever decide to run for select board again, I’m going to be much better informed and prepared to understand the issues.

Meanwhile…

Just yesterday, I drove through a town of 65,000 people. There was a group of people on a street corner holding up “pro labor” signs and “free Palestine” signs and “anti-war” signs, and “Jill Stein for President” (mind you, this is March 2025 – there isn’t a presidential election until 2028!) and “The Green Party wants your vote!” signs. There were maybe ten of these folks?

So when I got home, I went to their city’s “Boards and Commissions” website. They have 19 vacant seats on various committees and boards and commissions, including two (the Wetlands Commission [wouldn’t that be a Green Party issue??], and the Diversity Commission) that don’t have enough members right now to hold meetings under state quorum rules. And there are 85 people on other commissions and boards that are up for re-election this year, and more than half of them don’t want to keep running for these seats; they’d welcome a challenger.

In other words, the local community is STARVING for people to fill local government responsibilities.

Why are these people out here holding up signs for a woman to run for president in three years, when there are 104 seats in their own community government that are up election this year? Demonstrate to someone, somebody, anybody that you want to help solve community-level problems, and that you know what you’re doing… and there’s no holding you back.

depsidase:

victusinveritas:

victusinveritas:

“Back in the eighties dungeons were becoming a thing in New York. Guys would pay a lot of money to come there and have some dominatrix tell them what to do. I was making leather pencil skirts for a lot of the doms, with holes in the back so that guys could kiss their ass. One day I was fitting a dom named Asia, and I told her: ‘I bet I could make more money than you without wearing stuff like this.’ She bet me I couldn’t. It was all a big goof. But then I started really thinking about it. Asia was making $150 a session, and that was real money. So I did the same thing I always do when I get an idea. I just ran an ad in the back of the Village Voice. Most of these girls were advertising how young they were. So I used the word ‘mature.’ And I figured out how to write ‘Jewish Guys Welcome’ in Yiddish, and I put that at the bottom. It was some of the easiest money I ever made. I never let them touch me. All I had to do was be a bossy black woman. And I could do that easy because my mother had been such a bitch. I’d pretend to be a school teacher, or a nanny. It was the dumbest shit. I just kept inventing crazy scenarios. And the crazier the scenario, the more money I made. One time I heard about a dom on the Upper East Side who charged $3,000 a week to kidnap a guy and lock him in her basement. I didn’t have a basement, but I knew a limo driver named Dean who liked to hustle like me. So every time I got a call from a new client, I’d say: ‘You want to be kidnapped, don’t you?’ And he’d start stuttering like: ‘Duh, duh, duh, duh.’ And I’d say: ‘Listen to me closely. Stand on the corner of 5th and 18th tomorrow at 3 pm. Don’t be late.’ Then I’d call Dean and tell him the plan. It was always easy to spot the guy. He’d be the one checking his watch and looking scared as shit. So we’d roll up in the limo, grab him by the collar, and pull him inside. Then I’d lock the doors and start telling him what to do. Everything went down in the back of the limo. Dean just rolled up the partition and kept his eyes on the road. At the end I’d give him $100, because I was getting $250 for that.”

-Happy 81st birthday to Stephanie ‘Tanqueray’ Johnson. If you see her wheeling around Chelsea today wish her a happy birthday, and there is a nonzero chance she will give you a glow-in-the-dark dildo eraser.
-Humans of New York

aetherograph:

bisexualbaker:

bisexualbaker:

So it seems like some of you might be interested in learning more about Dreamwidth.

Listen, here’s the thing: Dreamwidth is not slick. It is not fancy. Its base code was originally put together some two decades ago or more, and it looks like it. It can’t do much with images and definitely not with video—like, I think there’s some way to embed video, but I have no idea how to do it, and hosting it on Dreamwidth is, uh…

The point is! Dreamwidth is a lot different from Tumblr. It’s closer to Tumblr than it is to Facebook or Instagram, but it’s a lot more old-school internet than Tumblr is. And that means that, for anyone who wasn’t on the internet some ten, fifteen years ago, there’s probably going to be a steep learning curve. It can take more effort to post things there, and more effort to find your people, its image hosting capacity can charitably be described as both “limited” and “poorly organized”, and overall it may still never be the kind of website where you, personally, will want to spend a lot of time or do a lot of things. Dreamwidth does not and will never have an app, for pretty much the same reasons as AO3.

But there is one thing I can guarantee, and that is that Dreamwidth is willing to fight for us and our rights. They’re already doing so.

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I wish AO3 were an actual social media site,” consider checking out Dreamwidth; it’s not too far off from that as an idea.

You can host media on squidge.org, which is specifically for hosting fandom media.

While we’re on the topic, Proboards is still around, and still free, and still customisable, and still WORKS. Neocities has replaced geocities and is also pretty great (and you can host things from there too if you want).

The old infrastructure is there. We don’t have to rely on for-profit social media companies that censor everything all to hell. The tradeoff is YOU can’t be a for-profit social media company either. There’s no ‘reach’ there’s not 'like and subscribe’ there’s no 'i want my socialising space to also be my job’ nope. It’s just socialising.

jellisdraws:

skunkeyemcghee:

Do yourself a favor. Sound up. Enjoy.

This is a serotonin machine

stellanslashgeode:

robinreturnstotumbler:

genderretired:

alicearmageddon:

HAPPY ELEVEN YEARS

[Transcription:
Reporter, offscreen: You don’t think she did any good?
First woman: Not a bit of good, not a bit. I’d put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she’ll never come back
Reporter: Isn’t that a pretty horrible thing to say when her funeral’s going on right now?
First woman: Too bad. Too bad.
Second woman: She pulled the ladder up behind herself and never helped another woman, ever. So she-
Reporter, interrupting: But didn’t she show that a woman could become prime minister? Nobody’d done that before.
Second woman: Do you want a woman like that as a warmonger and rips the heart out her country, is that what you want for a prime minister of any sex? ]

HAPPY TWELVE YEARS

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

supreme-leader-stoat:

dakotaqueen:

dakotaqueen:

dakotaqueen:

Teach me how to use my tumblog

I am tumbling

Do not curse me

I bet you I can find the post in that photo.

acanthawrites:

🦉

My partner critiques my fics in memes, I felt this on a very personal level.

lorenzens-soil:

Dragon Head Mountain, South Sinai, Egypt.
The red glow in the ‘eye’ is a camp fire in the cave.

niamhermind:

perplexingly:

perplexingly:

Legolas/Gimli sketch…

#op you can’t make me pick up the series cuz of this I’m not strong enough

they’re worth reading for I swear

@nordreys

thotsandpreyers: