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Jason would tell you that his most recent case, where he stopped a wannabe warlock's spell-in-progress, went just fine. Jason would also tell you he was fine with the distant, prickly status quo of his relationships with the other Bats. (Jason is maybe not the most reliable of narrators.) Or: A spell gone wrong leads to Jason hashing some things out--with himself, with Dick, and with the rest of the Batfam. Featuring: rather a lot of thoughts and conversations about memory, change, damage, love and trust, accountability, family, hurt, lies, death, Spyral, pedestals, cases, memorials, stories, and Robin.

“Well—maybe you’ll get lucky, and Lan Wangji won’t like you at all. Then he might send you home and keep up his part of the deal anyway!” Nie Huaisang meant it as a joke, but Wei Ying sees potential. After all: if there’s one thing he’s learned in the months since the engagement, it’s that he is utterly unsuitable for a place like the Cloud Recesses. All he has to do is act like it.   (...After a century of war, the great sects are looking to make peace by the most common means: marriage. When Wei Wuxian is promised to the Lan Clan, it is thought to be a grave insult. Things do not turn out the way anyone expects.)

Sometimes what a love story needs is a lawnmower-related sexuality crisis, way too many text messages, and a not-exactly-haunted library.

Once, Lan Wangji made a choice to step aside. Ten years after Wei Ying’s death, he finds a way back to choose again.

"This disciple has studied diligently for the possibility of being allowed to bring a-Yuan pleasure," he admitted easily, tracing nonsensical shapes into Shen Yuan's hip. "When one is willing to spend a great deal of coin, hands-off education can be quite thorough." ~ Luo Binghe goes to a brothel to learn about gay sex. That's it, that's the plot.

Tim Drake stops stalking Gotham’s nocturnal wildlife when she goes to college. Unfortunately, they don’t return the favor.

Dongfang Qingcang remained steady, almost uninterested, like he’d gone through this conversation thousands of times. He tucked the loose end of the gauze against her skin. “If I’m no weapon, then I am nothing.” “No. If a weapon is what you want to be, so be it. I won’t stop you. But there is so much more to you than that.” His face was starless and carefully empty. “Like what?”

PART ONE: ORIGINAL FILMANIA PRODUCTION & FATE It’s 2019-20, you’re Mile Phakphum Romsaithong, a very rich socialite who plays guitar. You’re bored and you’ve been thinking about getting into acting, and have been offered misc. BL casting opportunities before (1), but never really felt like any of them were For You, so you turned them down. Then, one day, you find out that there is a BL currently casting from the studio Filmania, where the male lead is based on you (2), at least your public persona/physically/whatever. Being a puppy of a man, you are delighted, and go read the script, and then the books, and decide you’ll go to the casting call for it. At casting call, you re-meet Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat (3), who you went to college with and had a giant crush on (4). You guys hit it off IMMEDIATELY, chemistry unhinged, and get cast as Kinn and Porsche. Apo takes it, even though he has historically had a bad experience with the Thai acting industry (5). You are delighted by this incidence of FATE!!!!!! PART TWO: IF YOU DON’T HAVE FATE ON YOUR SIDE STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE The show gets dropped (6) Something something the authors, something something the company, whatever. I assume, if you are Mile, you are very sad! And if you’re Apo you’re also pretty sad, because it seemed like for once even with all the industry BS you had a cool dude on your side who you hit it off with, and it was gonna be a cool show. On the heels of that, if you are Mile, and have stacks of money, and see your college crush who is an unbelievable actor about to re-give up on acting and call it a wash, you are like, “wait, I have stacks of money and know everyone”. So you, Mile, call up the head of the small talent agency you’re signed with, Be On Cloud, which is really just your buddy Pond Krisda Witthayakhajorndet in a fake mustache and a trench coat, and go, hey! So! Have you ever wanted to make television? I have a man here I CANNOT allow to be sad under any circumstances, and also, we’re really good at this and there’s an audience here. PART THREE: BE ON CLOUD, KINNPORSCHE TAKE TWO!!!! Pond, being just as unhinged as Mile, thinks about it for a second, and is like. Well. How different can making television be from running an event planning company, which is my real job (7). It’s just calling up a bunch of different guys who are good at their jobs and putting them in one place. And I know so many different guys! Let’s do it! They get the rights (handwaves this I don’t know anything about it) and jump into production. They get their shit together UNREALISTICALLY quickly (6), and on top of that, since they’re starting from scratch and they’re just A Bunch Of Guys led by Pond and Mile, they decide that their priorities are #1 making art and #2 making Apo happy. With regards to #1, they rework the script (8), hire the best acting coaches money can afford, and put the cast through character-building and intimacy workshops. With regards to #2, they toss out all the industry bullshit that has sucked for him in the past – no more crew/cast hierarchy (9), no more homophobia on-set (10), no more fake fanservice (11). FINALE: MIRACLES IF U BELIEVE ETC. Magically, it turns out, when you create a great working environment, you get really, really good TV!!!!! Which means that their unhinged plan succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and now Mile & Apo are internationally famous superstars who hang out 24/7 with their squad of 16 close friends, and we get to watch them do it. And it has been, genuinely, a fucking privilege.

Do obsessions from other worlds form a basis for a healthy relationship? Asking for a friend.

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In which Wei Wuxian goes on a journey of accidental self-discovery, and Lan Wangji is not prepared to meet Wei Wuxian this early on. Also, less importantly, there is a night hunt.

Lan Zhan discovers a fascinating new-to-him cam boy who goes by Yiling Laozu at the same time as he meets a man named Wei Ying who instantly piques his interest.

“I am not looking for a husband,” says Lan Zhan. “I am a lesbian.” “I’m not a good match for anyone looking for a husband anyway,” says Wei Wuxian, yanking hard at a loose sleeve thread. “I’m, uh. A woman. Transgender.” In which Lan Zhan and Wei Ying enter into a marriage of convenience, try on dresses, watch Star Trek, and accidentally fall in love.

Written based on the May Trope Mayhem list from Duck Prints Press! So. It turns out that Shang Qinghua was taking commissions on the side to write fanfiction of his own novel. Truly, his shamelessness knows no bounds, ect., ect., what else is new?! The problem is, now the System has found those stories, and shoved them in the middle of Shen Qingqiu's Happy Ever After! It can't be too bad, though, right? It's not like Airplane-bro wasn't already abusing every trope known to man! Only... What trope is this supposed to be??? "Great Master" Airplane, bro, why are all these tropes wrong??? Did you... Did you seriously scam people out of their money without knowing what their requests meant?! A story of tropes where all the tropes are wrong. Updates written daily through the month of May and posted with minimal editing!

Porsche watches the security video from Yok's bar. He has so many questions.

anyway thinking once again about wei ying, a baby, improbably being taken off the streets not by jfm (who never finds him) but by a tradesman who has no wife, no children, and thus no one teach his trade to (or: instead of a jiang cultivator, wei ying grows up to be a brewer not too far from caiyi town)

"Porsche." Dammit. God fucking shit dammit, there's no room for negotiation in it. "Turn around." He does, and Kinn's on him in an instant, hands cupping his face and turning his head like he thinks that maybe the cuts and bruises are just a trick of the light. "Who did this?" Kinn asks, brushing the blood on Porsche's lip away with his thumb and fuck fuck fuck, that shouldn't be sending a shiver down his spine, but it does and dammit he is so fucked. "Porsche. Who did this to you?" Or: the one where Porsche gets hurt and Kinn loses his mind.

In which Khun is missing and Kinn and Kim make new friends.

“You know the rules, then?” Kinn asks. Porsche looks amused, like he can tell how badly Kinn wants to wreck his composure. “No kissing, no marks on you, bubble bath first,” Porsche recites easily. “I read your notes file.” Kinn is almost certain Porsche isn’t supposed to tell him the escort agency keeps a notes file. (or, an AU in which Kinn requests an escort for the night, and gets Porsche.)

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The two most important people in Arthur’s life are Mal and Eames. In their own, different ways, they’ve understood him, supported him, even defined him for most of his adult life. Which is why it’s completely ridiculous that he’s ended up wandering the world alone with Dominic Cobb.

Wei Wuxian is staring up at the sky, thinking idly about the taste of Emperor’s Smile on his tongue, when Suibian jumps full force onto his stomach and cries, “A-Xian, don’t be mad!” The sheer force of her pounce knocks the breath out of him. The resulting pause is just long enough for Jiang Cheng, who up to this point has been laying rather peacefully next to him, to shoot up and demand, “Oh great, what did you do now?” To be fair, the question isn’t exactly unwarranted. Suibian looks an absolute mess: twigs stuck in her fur, dirt smeared across the white fluff of her underbelly. She’s panting up a storm, little heh heh heh gasps that haven’t edged into her normal high-pitched laughter. When her ears press back against her head, she could almost pass for pitiful. “Bichen hates me.” Wei Wuxian’s first thought is Why would Lan Zhan’s daemon hate you?, but it’s followed quickly by remembering exactly where he is, how little trouble he’s caused today, and the fact that he hasn’t seen Suibian for a few minutes. A grin spreads across his face. (Or: The most important name a cultivator will ever pick isn’t for their sword. It’s for their daemon.)

Wei Wuxian teaches Lan Wangji how to dance. But first, Lan Wangji has to teach him how to cook.

Adam Parrish has worked at The Night Owl since the end of his college freshman year. It's named so because it's open late, which suits Adam just fine because no one ever comes in during those last hours before 12am. Except, then someone does. A foul mouthed, viciously handsome someone, who brings a slow rolling storm of change into Adam's steady life. And when he does, Adam won't be able to lie anymore.

A cheesy porn set up turns into a relationship a lot faster than Ronan and Adam are ready to admit.

Genesis comes home one night to tell his roommate, Cloud, that he's met the love of his life... except, no, oops, the handsome fitness Instagram model he'd met at a work event is engaged. The heartbreak is brief, though, because Zack has attractive 'fitstagram' friends. Even if Cloud doesn't know the first thing about social media and Genesis has not gone running for anything other than the bathroom in a long time, they make it work.

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Abandoned America By Matthew Christopher Find out why it's all falling apart on the new Abandoned America podcast! Join host Matthew Christopher, author and photographer of the Abandoned America book series and website, and explore what incredible stories ruins have to tell, what mysteries they hold, and why they were left behind.

Plastic recycling is a myth study says

Colorado River conditions are worsening quicker than expected. Feds prepare to step in. The megadrought plaguing the West is worsening and Lake Powell could sink below a critical level without enough snow this winter