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It turned out that living like people instead of monsters required all sorts of skills and tools. Cleaning required soap, and some inkling of how to apply it. Consolation’s flight, having been raised by monsters, not people, had none of the requisite skills.
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09 Dec 2025
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A Bushel and a Peck by thehoyden
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
12 Sep 2019
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Sometimes, a family is a demonic nanny, an angelic cook, and a kid who isn't actually the Antichrist.
Or: Crowley helps Aziraphale secure a different position at the Dowling Estate.
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08 Dec 2025
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Tuning up your TIE-Fighter to prove you’re better than the bastard currently running the TIE-Fighter Program for fun and profit by loosingletters for OliveBranch_10, Jackdaw_Kraai
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
30 May 2020
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As a rule, Vader didn't really do anything with his social media account, but then the rant of some kid from Tatooine about the inefficiency of TIE Fighters began trending, the pilots and engineers on the Devastator started fixing their ships and Vader got invested.
“Welcome to another episode of Scrap Hunting,” the teenager in the video said. He took a sip of water from the metallic canteen he was holding, drinking slow and carefully the way only a desert dweller did. “A couple weeks ago some sleemo commented that I’d never be able to improve any Imperial ships since I’m just Outer Rim trash. And I suppose you did have a point that the things I fix won’t ever reach the level of an Imperial TIE because I wouldn’t build such trash in the first place.”
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08 Dec 2025
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Danny always seemed to find a way of one-upping Nicholas (Cornettos, car keys, absolute trust).
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A/B/O as a Problematic Cultural Response To Transphobia, Gender Anxiety, and U.S. Policy by tomato_greens for beyonces_fiancee
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
07 May 2022
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In some ways, A/B/O stories are subversive, disrupting consensus social reality’s gender paradigms by exploring trans sexual desire, cis sexual desire that subverts patriarchal expectation, queer desire, non-gender-conforming desire, and extremely gender-conforming desire, often all in the same sexual act. In other ways, some stories' obsessive focus on the act of penetration in service of procreation reify patriarchal ideologies by inscribing them into not only social but biological reality. In A/B/O couples, the alpha is biologically determined to penetrate, and the omega biologically determined to be penetrated; their subsequent social behaviors, respectively dominant and submissive, are thus also biologically encoded. What do we do with that???
Illustrative quote from within: "Am I saying that A/B/O is the Angel of History? I mean, like, no, although that is extremely funny to imagine, so I invite fanart of The Angel Of History In Heat any time."
P.S. I mean "problematic" in the ~academic~ sense, not as in a cancelable offense.
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25 Nov 2025