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Posted by Adertily

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68957671

Sick Harrow AU

"Pyrrha hadn’t explained what the pasta was for, or why number Nine was in particular need of neighbourly sustenance. Only that she’d been running late for work and that Gideon was to deliver it and not — look at me, no, look at me — not eat it herself.

Gideon knew how these things usually went. She expected a painfully old widower with grey hair and wrinkled skin, or a recently divorced and struggling mother of three, or maybe someone still going through the long and tormenting battle of their sickbed. So, when the door creaked open, and the sound was like something straight out of a Henry Selick movie — all theatrics and no actual threat, she found staring back at her the beady, black eyes of someone who couldn’t be much younger than herself."

Words: 6555, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Palamedes Sextus, Camilla Hect, Pyrrha Dve
Relationships: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Sick Character, Cancer, this is like if the last holiday and the fault in our stars had a queer distant cousin, Harrow has Leukemia, Gideon is oblivious, Alternate Universe - Road Trip, Angst

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68957671

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Posted by Nick Hardinges

https://www.snopes.com/collections/gavin-newsom-rumors-investigated/

The California governor has been the subject of numerous spurious stories for years, dating back to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.snopes.com/collections/gavin-newsom-rumors-investigated/

umadoshi

Reading:

scruloose and I finished listening to All Systems Red and are now maybe a third of the way into Artificial Condition.

Yesterday I finished The Hands of the Emperor, which I think I read some of every day and still took me something like a week and a half even though I continued to really enjoy it all the way through. (I did find myself wishing that some of the emotional arc with Kip and his family had been shorter; [ROT13] uvf pbzcyvpngrq srryvatf nobhg uvf snzvyl abg ng nyy tenfcvat jub ur jnf be jung ur npghnyyl qvq jrer inyvq, ohg gung jnf n YBG bs cntrf qribgrq gb znal vafgnaprf va n ebj bs ehaavat vagb lrg nabgure crefba jub qvqa'g trg vg naq jnf qvfzvffvir be vafhygvat, be fbzrbar jub QVQ xabj jub ur jnf naq univat na vagrenpgvba, naq va rvgure pnfr gurer jnf gura lrg nabgure yratgul qryvirel bs rkcynangvba, naq vg jnf whfg...n ybg.

After finishing that last night, I completely at random started reading We'll Prescribe You a Cat (Syou Ishida), about which I have no particular feelings at this time.

Eating/baking: ( fruit, baking, salad (HelloFresh), sadness about still not liking tomatoes )

Current Mood: groggy

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Posted by Emery Winter

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/moss-houses-norway-vikings-ai/

The pictures, though stunning, were made by AI.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/moss-houses-norway-vikings-ai/

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

eller

...or: more fun with chemistry. I have to do something useful with my skills after all! XD So, here's my newest color, "Living Tree".

Living-Tree-2025-08-kl

This time, it's supposed to look like leaves - with a bit of granulation to make botanical painting more convenient. I can already predict I'm going to use this color quite often. Maybe the next project is going to be a sky blue - then I have an (almost) complete landscape set!

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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68866751

by Anonymous

The veil stays on during.

Words: 313, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Relationships: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: veil kink, Kissing, Fluff

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68866751

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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68866751

by Anonymous

The veil stays on during.

Words: 313, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Relationships: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: veil kink, Kissing, Fluff

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68866751

hannah

Walking down the stairs to the subway platform, a group of what I assume are tourists are standing right at the bottom, talking and not moving. The train's pulling in and I don't have time to think: I tap my knuckles against the back of the one right in front of me like I'm knocking on a door.

Amazingly, it works perfectly.

What also worked perfectly was twice tonight, getting into the station and to the platform within a minute of the train pulling in, where I walked down or walked up and it's arriving just as I am. It's now something where I have to stop saying it never happens and go to saying it almost never happens. Because it's now happened at least once.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: nothing now

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Posted by Anna Rascouët-Paz

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obamas-house-lex-wexner-epstein/

Wexner reportedly bought a house the Obamas used to rent, but the former presidential couple still own another house on the island.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obamas-house-lex-wexner-epstein/

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Posted by princesandpirates

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68906036

by princesandpirates

Most cavaliers never found a necromancer to pledge themselves to. Daisuke Bucklesby was unlucky enough to have found two.

(or, a Cloudward,Ho!/TLT fic written for One Dimension, One Twenty)

Words: 503, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dimension 20 (Web Series), The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Daisuke Bucklesby, Comfrey MacLeod, Olethra MacLeod
Relationships: Daisuke Bucklesby/Comfrey MacLeod, Daisuke Bucklesby & Olethra MacLeod
Additional Tags: Character Study, Cavalier-Necromancer Dynamics (Locked Tomb Series), because what is necrocav if not complete devotion to an ideal

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68906036

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Posted by Rae Deng

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-clergy-child-abuse-law/

In July, a judge temporarily blocked the Washington state law from going into effect while the court case proceeded.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-clergy-child-abuse-law/

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Posted by Jordan Liles

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-6-month-school-proposal/

Such a measure, if ever proposed, would reduce the average 180-day U.S. school year to somewhere around 120 days.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-6-month-school-proposal/

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Posted by Laerke Christensen

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-plane-epstein-island/

U.S. President Donald Trump said in January he had never visited the late financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's island.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-plane-epstein-island/

kaberett

Today I have got Somewhat Caught Up on last event's lost property Situation. My GREAT TRIUMPH was, partway through the paperwork, going "... I'm sure that brooch in particular is... Oddly... Familiar..."

-- and indeed upon going back through my records it transpires that I HAD RETURNED IT TO ITS PERSON AT THE FIRST EVENT THIS YEAR.

So my spreadsheet is duly updated and they can have it back again at the last event of the year :)

(Some other victories: cut-price overripe strawberries. More of my mother's birthday cake. Rye and caraway and poppyseed bread. the elderly niter kibbeh in the fridge still being Definitely Food and substantially enlivening dinner. Shitposting in the PD crew Discord. Starting Solutions and Other Problems with A, and the cake, and the strawberries.)

azurelunatic

Suspension of disbelief = I will not start verbally poking holes in the physics of this action movie until we are out of the movie theater

Suspension in disbelief = a frozen state of constant WTF

rachelmanija

A middle-grade graphic novel about a boba shop with a secret.

Aria comes to stay with her grandmother in San Francisco for the summer to escape a bad social situation. Her grandmother owns a boba shop that doesn't seem too popular, and Aria throws herself into making it more so - most successfully when Grandma's cat Bao has eight kittens, and Aria advertises it as a kitten cafe. But why is Grandma so adamant about never letting Aria set foot in the kitchen, and kicking out the customers at 6:00 on the dot? Why do the prairie dogs in the backyard seem so smart?

This graphic novel has absolutely adorable illustrations. The story isn't as strong. The first half is mostly a realistic, gentle, cozy slice of life. The second half is a fantasy adventure with light horror aspects. Even though the latter is throughly foreshadowed in the former, it still feels kind of like two books jammed together.

My larger issue was with tone and content that also felt jammed together. The book is somewhat didactic - which is fine, especially in a middle-grade book - but I feel like if the book is teaching lessons, it should teach them consistently and appropriately. The lessons in this book were a bit off or inconsistent, creating an uncanny valley feeling.

Spoilers! ( Read more... )

Fantastic art, kind of odd story.

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Posted by Joey Esposito

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kristi-noem-south-park-response/

Noem made the statement in reaction to an episode of "South Park" that satirized her and ICE.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kristi-noem-south-park-response/

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I can't figure out where / how I can select a mood theme. Could somebody help me? Thank you :)

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Posted by pearlpool

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68877856

by pearlpool

“That girl is a menace, I hope she’s actually giving you the lay of the land around here.”

Harrow sighs, imagining a lightning fast supercut of the night before in her mind, and finds the phantom taste of Ianthe’s filthy martinis on her tongue. “Something along those lines.”

“Ah, now that you mention it, —” (It takes Harrow a moment to get the joke.) “— don’t let her give you any hard drugs, alright?” Pyrrha says, and then, a bit belatedly: “Just the soft ones. You know, consensually. And don’t let those motherfuckers take away who you are.”

“… Right.” Harrow makes the executive decision to not say that it's too late.

-
or, more band au, but there's no band. don't ask anyone how they feel about it.

Words: 5874, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of band au

Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Gideon Nav, Ianthe Tridentarius, Coronabeth Tridentarius, John Gaius | Necrolord Prime, Pyrrha Dve, Palamedes Sextus (mentioned) - Character, Camilla Hect (mentioned)
Relationships: Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Ianthe Tridentarius, Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Rock Band, Hurt No Comfort, Implied Sexual Content, Drinking, Smoking, Recreational Drug Use, TW brief vomit mention, music industry bullshit, putting harrow in the blender for just under 6k words

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68877856

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