Oklahoma is attempting to pass a bill that would ban explicit romance novels. Authors, narrators, and sellers could all face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail for each instance.
If you live in OK, call your representative and tell them this bill should not be allowed to pass.
This is likely a test case. Republicans will try to pass it in OK and if it passes other states will likely try to pass similar laws.
In the meantime, get physical copies of books you like. Download those pdfs. Archive your AO3 stories and keep them on a physical hard drive. (Storing those files in the cloud could be problematic in the future as the company managing the cloud service can see what your files are)
Ten Years
Ten Seasons
218 Episodes
This is for everyone who is part of this epic journey. Whether it took you ten years or ten days it doesn’t matter because this little show has bought so many of us together. A huge thanks to the cast, crew and all of you for making me feel like part of something. Let’s hope the SPN family grows and continues to be there for each other for many years to come ♥
For the 10 anniversary, I really wanted to try doing something completely out of my regular practice. So to celebrate 10 years of Freddy, I decided to make an animatic! This was my first time working on a project this big (and it’s my first time doing an animatic), so I hope you all enjoy!
Song is “Moving Up in the World” by DAgames! :)
Odd Squad came out when I was starting Pre-k. I remember my younger self would race to the living room after school in order to not miss any new Season 1 episodes. When I got older, Season 2 came out. I will always appreciate Season 1, but I can never be thankful enough for Season 2.
I had a really bad teacher in 2nd grade, like to the point I didn't ever want to go to school. (Which was rare for me back then-I used to love going) (I actually ended up moving schools cause of that teacher, but that's a story for another day)
One of the only things. that could make me feel some semblance of happiness during that time were new and reruns of Season 2 Odd Squad episodes.
I love Otto, Olive, and Oscar, nothing can beat the OGs, but I remember seeing Olympia, Otis, and Oona on screen being one of the few things that could cheer me up.
I have only seen some Season 3 and Season 4 episodes (mostly because im not the target demographic for the show anymore), but this anniversary has inspired me to finish both seasons 3 and 4. (I feel like I owe it to that scared little 2nd grader, ya'know?)
Point is, Odd Squad has been there for me, in both the good and bad. It was/is the first fandom I've ever been in. The world and characters inspired my love for other fandoms, and has inspired me to try writing fanfiction.
Odd Squad Forever!
💯 This! 🙌🏼
"liv has grown so much without elliot." this keeps coming up in the tags of my edits and in peoples asks and it's driving me a little insane. i have watched every season of this god damn show and i feel like it's such a simplistic way to look at olivia both in the classic episodes and the newer ones.
one, the idea that liv didn't grow at all in the first twelve seasons is absolute horse shit. she says this to nick because the svu writers who took over after s12 actually hate stabler. it is not true and it's unfair to her.
two, yes, she did grow a ton in the last ten seasons. a lot of things have also happened to her. a lot of traumatic and horrible things happen to her and we almost never see her actually get to process them. she just straightens her back and carries on as the strong lieutenant/captain/mother. is this growth? or is it liv repressing her feelings?
elliot, her best friend, abandons her and then liv is abducted by a serial rapist and held hostage for days, assulated, her brother dies of an overdose, her son is abducted by his biological grandmother who she had thought was a friend, barba becomes her best friend and then ALSO leaves her, tucker marries someone else and then kills himself... and when do we have an in depth exploration into any of these things? never. we scratch the surface - like we did on last weeks episode. because we have gone from "liv" to "captain benson" lately.
elliot coming back gives liv a chance to just be a person again instead of just filling a role. she deserves to face and process all of these things starting with elliot leaving her. whether or not you ship them romantically (and i DO think they have always been in love) she literally said elliot was the single most important person in her life, and she absolutely has not healed from him leaving. she could barely talk about it without her voice breaking.
her anger and hurt still exists and are being space to exist, but she knows elliot is in a very fragile state. she can't push him away because if she does and he dies she will regret it forever, like she did with simon and tucker. and elliot wants to be back in her life but he also wants to push her away so she doesn't become a target. this is painfully obvious to me and yet people somehow are missing it and acting like he's just being an asshole for the sake of it and not actually going through a major mental health crisis. elliot has definitely changed as well and become softer and less confrontational in all the ways that matter, but he is also going through something very intense. we are only four episodes into something that is really an exploration into changing this big macho, toxic persona that elliot had. it will take time.
so yes, liv has grown and changed - in a lot of ways for the better. but that doesn't mean that growth will disappear if she is there for elliot or if she lets him back into her life. maybe helping him process his ptsd will finally give is some insight into her own. their reentry into each other's orbits was bound to be rough, and it would be disservice for it not to be - but maybe they can heal and grow together into newer and better versions of themselves and come out stronger in the end. not everything has to turn out negative. let us enjoy this.
It’s been 10 years since my good friend and I, Spvcemvn Trip put this project out. Originally, it only came with 5 tracks, but we found some hidden gems for y’all to enjoy!!🔥
Thank you for your continued support 🖤
Hopped of the train in Scranton, PA
Another cloudy, grey afternoon
Home of the Railriders and Scranton Miners
Did you pack your snow shoes?
Jumped in the cab
Here you are for the first time
Look to the right and you see the-electric-city-sign
This is gonna be a good day
For Dunder Mifflin and Sabre
The stock markets going crazy and you really don’t know us
Too much pressure and you’re nervous
That’s when the taxi man turned on the radio
And the music took over your brain
And you thought this might be insane
But you decided to try and stay
So you put your hands up
You take a deep breathe
The butterflies will fly away
Your noddin’ your head like yeah
Straighten your tie like yeah
You got your hands up
You’ve done this before
We’re all gonna be o-kay
Yeah, yeah, ye-eh-yeah
Dunder Mifflin is a part of Sabre
Get to the office in your taxi cab
Everybody’s looking at you now
Like “Whose in charge, whose calling the shots”
Is this gonna all work out?
So hard with the sun down by seven
Hope you don’t get seasonal depression
‘Cause it all gets cold and starts to snow
I guess you never got the memo
The stock markets going crazy and you really don’t know us
Too much pressure and you’re nervous
That’s when the Andy and Erin jumped center stage
So they could sing you a welcome song
So we could all sing you this song
And we hope you sing along
So you put your hands up
You take a deep breathe
The butterflies fly away
Your noddin’ your head like yeah
We’re noddin’ our hears like yeah
You got your hands up
You’ve done this before
We’re all gonna be o-kay
Yeah, yeah, ye-eh-yeah
Dunder Mifflin is a part of Sabre
Feel like skipping on that flight (on that flight)
Tallahassee’s just alright (alright)
Something her feels just right (just right)
It’s that welcome song that let’s you know you’re gonna Be! Al-right!
So you put your hands up -> Dunder Millfin is a part of Sabre (x2)
Here is a thought: 2024 was last year, 2014 was ten years ago last year, and 2004 was twenty years ago last year. That’s it.
So the one on the left is from August of 2010 but it’s about the closest I could find; side note, I have had a whole heck of a wild nostalgia trip today looking back through old pictures on my mom’s computer to find this.
And yet, oddly, I’m kind of surprised how little I’ve changed from then until now? For a minute I almost wondered if this picture was dated wrong because some of the pictures of me in 2009 looked like they were from much longer ago somehow, but I think the date is right... I guess it’s kind of hilarious to me looking at how much everyone else in these pictures has changed and I just. Have not. 14 year old me and 24 year old me look almost the same. Maybe this is why it’s so hard for me to believe that much time has passed, haha. If I wasn’t a coward and I’d dyed my hair this summer like I was thinking about, maybe... but anyways, yeah. I’m perhaps a bit better accessorized now, although in fairness 2010 me was on a hike to the Cascades in Pembroke, Va, which is also why I was wearing my conspicuously rainbow-colored swimsuit under my shirt. But so much is still the same I’m a little flabbergasted that it’s been a literal decade between these pictures.
*Kill All Your Friends starts playing* It’s been ten *bleep*ing years.... Sorry, wrong album.
the 10th anniversary of Danger Days is coming up on November 22nd and i think we should all post what we looked like when the album was released verses now yknow “me November 2010 vs me November 2020” i think that’d be really cute
10 together and we are still so happy! My mom made this for me and I love it!!!
August 29th, 1958 - June 25th, 2009
Michael J Jackson
10 years without him here...
😭