🏡A Warm Home (Is All I Wish For)🏡
- #hisdarkmaterials / Lyra & Asriel / Silverparry
- Ch 11/20 / 119k words
- Asriel learning to be a good dad the fic
- Modern AU (with a twist)
"Yet another promise broken, so callously ripping into Lyra's heart as if she didn't matter."
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People making the point that this is about creeping authoritarianism aimed at adults, which it is, but the ongoing crusade for "parent's rights" e.g. to reaffirm that children are the property of their parents and deserve zero autonomy whatsoever is also a crucial aspect of this.
Fantastic feeling seeing the Nazis who marched through the streets on Tuesday, beating up non-white people and who tried to march on Glasgow central mosque now surrounded by at least 5000 anti-racists. Glasgow is anti-fascist. Fuck off nazi scum.
What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say:
🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir.
🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund.
🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate.
🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms.
🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀
🦛 The Berlin Zoo announced the name of its newborn pygmy hippopotamus — a rare mammal native to West Africa: Broetchen, which is German for ‘bread roll’
@allyyccatt Oml yeah... I've just fallen back into it recently and it's not good for my wallet 😭😭 and also finding out all the cool stuff I missed (tho tbh that was probably good for my wallet)
New #danmei cover reveal! ✨ PANGUAN: THE TWELFTH GATE (NOVEL) Vol. 2 by Mu Su Li—with cover art by LINXIZHIYI + interior art by St! #SevenSeasDanmei#Panguan
This modern-day supernatural tale is out in English print/digital this December—pre-order now!
https://t.co/aQvaNmXb3C
@allyyccatt Yeah, I have the same here, only the massive London cons really offer a full weekend of entertainment... And it's actually cheaper to go to Germany for dokomi haha. YESSS that'd be an awesome trip honestly 😤
developed a habit of avoiding people's eyes so the system wouldn't be able to watch them through him, his whole mother situation, carrying the burden of his lover forgetting about him three times .. but after so long, he finally got his happy ending with Qin Jiu.
#QQGK#jiuhuo
@allyyccatt Dokomi is so so worth it... Crazy amt of artists, all so good. It's so massive you can actually fill 3 days unlike most cons. Scotland is also so worth it 👀👀 then we'd maybe see each other a couple of times, since I do dokomi almost every year!
Missed going to dokomi this year but probs a good thing cause I'm more excited for next year (needed the break tbh) (crazy it was more intl this year I swear it was already fairly intl at least w/ cosplayers being from all over Europe)