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Bestowed the honour of ‘human family’ by the local primary school wolf pack || elves, spaceships, stories

Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/users/eye_of_a_cat/works

Tags: #RingsofPower #Doriath #MyFic
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This hoya’s going through its goth phase
Leaves of a hoya plant - most are variegated white and green but the two newest leaves are a very dark red that’s almost black
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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My Tom Thumb jade flowered!
small succulent plant, a variegated Tom Thumb jade, with tiny white flowers
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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plant colours:
Light green young succulent (echeveria mocha) Mottled light green and pinkish succulent (echeveria Mexican Giant) Light pinkish turquoise and lilac succulent (echeveria lilacina) Close up of succulent (echeveria ice green)
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Find your fic that is on ‘Anonymous’ (because you added it/because it’s an exchange fic in the anon period/etc): under ‘Works in Collections’, here. UNLESS you’ve added it to an anon collection and it’s not yet been approved - in that case you can still see it by going to ‘Edit Works’.
Screenshot: “1 - 20 of 108 Works by eye_of_a_cat Edit Works Works in Collections.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
eyeofacat.bsky.social
Hide your work: add it to an ‘Unrevealed’ collection. (You can also make your own collection and set it to ‘Anonymous’ or ‘Unrevealed’)
screenshot of AO3 collection titled “Unrevealed Drafts. Profile: This is a collection so you can post your drafts (so they don't die in a week) and edit them, and they will stay unrevealed. Only mods (me) and the author can view them, and I promise not to look at anyone's. (Open, Unmoderated, Unrevealed)”
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Make your work show up as ‘Anonymous’ without permanently orphaning it: add it to one of the big ‘Anonymous’ collections (you can remove it again when/if you want your name back on it), like this one:
Screenshot from AO3 of a collection with 182999 works, titled ‘Anonymous’. Description: “Your name will not be on work posted to "Anonymous". Surprise your friends with gift work without a name attached! Publish crack or explicit works or badworks and retain control, without”
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Use a site skin to block the tags you don’t want to see (so you don’t need to filter them out via Exclude on every visit):

archiveofourown.org/works/415892...
AO3 screenshot of a work title and header. “How to Block Tags With Site Skins (And Get Real Specific About It) by najio. Summary: Just some info l've gathered over the past couple of weeks, about how to: 1. Block tags using Site Skins, block only fics that contain both tag A and tag B, and block fics with a tag that contains a certain phrase, unless they are a specific whitelisted tag 2. Highlight the tags in pretty colors! Or bold, or hide them! 3. Block mega-crossovers with a million different fandoms 4. Select for/block fics that are completed/rated something/have a certain category/don't have summaries 5. Block everything that doesn't have a certain tag, or one of a list of tags 6. Block orphan_account and tag block by author 7. Block only tags of specific types (fandoms, relationships, freeforms, etc.) 8. Block fics focused on original characters, and/or fics without any tags of a specific type 9. Block every pairing with two characters in it-case insensitive, any order, no matter how many other people are also in the tag 10. Block by number of tags.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Things AO3 will let you do that may not be immediately obvious, A Thread:

1) search for fics with your desired ship *and no other ships* - use ‘otp:true’ in the search filter bar, like this:
AO3 screenshot: shows the bottom of AO3’s search filter, with the text box labelled ‘Search within results’, the typed content ‘otp:true’
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Andor (2022-2025), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
text interspersed with Andor screencaps. Text"who is good to me, and whom i revile; who understands me, and whom i push off. Who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat." Pictures of Perrin looking incredulous (at Mon), Mon looking incredulous (at Perrin), and both of them smiling as she drinks from his teacup. text interspersed with Andor screencaps. Text: "who can hold me, at night, so that it's warm, and who i will bite so there's blood." Pictures of Mon and Perrin arm in arm in formal dress at Davo Sculdun's party, and Mon and Perrin talking over drinks at a party. text interspersed with Andor screencaps. Text: "who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules." Pictures: Tay Kolma watching Perrin and Mon walk away; Runai Sculdun watching Perrin greet Mon; Mon and Perrin in the back of a limospeeder not looking at each other. text interspersed with Andor screencaps. Text: "who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy, and yes I do wish to be happy." Picture: Mon and Perrin in the back of a speeder, Perrin drinking while looking back at the crowd they're leaving. Text: "who is out there somewhere in the dark." Picture: Perrin in the back of a car with Runai Sculdun, looking miserable; Mon at the Yavin base with Bail Organa, hanging her head after a conversation with Saw Gerrera has gone badly.
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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thanks online thesaurus site for suggesting that the word I was looking for to describe someone letting all their feelings show on their face in a vulnerable way, was 'bodacious'.
Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted 'Theodore' Logan, playing air guitar
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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and every weirdly intense rant about how Celeborn is not even interesting or important and also is very bad for her actually and also is not even worth talking about! (a 🧵, 1/58)… same.
screenshot of tweet from me from 4 Aug 2024: “Also, each to their own on Sauron takes but every time I see one that's like "he plans out EVERYthing in advance, he is a master of perfectly executed schemes, he is not capable of love it's always manipulation" I imagine Sauron himself writing it while quietly sobbing.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Bluesky developer blog on ‘group-private data’ (ie, private accounts/circles/friendslock):

docs.bsky.app/blog
screenshot: text reads “Bluesky. Private Data. We believe that group-private data is absolutely necessary for the long-term success of the protocol and the Atmosphere. Every day, we wish that we had this figured out and developed already. But as mentioned earlier, we believe that we need to land and mature the existing protocol around public broadcast data before we move on to the next big chunk of work.” screenshot: text reads “We continue to have internal discussions around private data. Paul shared some leaflets that give a sense of the approaches that we're considering and the rubric by which we're judging them. The AT Protocol Community is also coordinating a Private Data Working Group to explore some designs for how the system could work.”
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Can’t believe these are still flowering in November.
Basket of flowering snapdragons in different shades of pink and white
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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October reading roundup 💙📚
Storygraph screenshot: “@bilberry's October 2025 Wrap-Up BOOKS 7 PAGES 1,064 Hours 5.1.” Storygraph screenshot: “@bilberry's October 2025 Reads C. P. CAVAFY Collected Poems. C. T. Rwizi, ‘These Alien Skies.’ HELEN DUNMORE The Siege. Shaun Traynor, ‘Images in Winter.’ Justin Myers, ‘The Glorious Dead.’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘The Visit.’ Timothy Zahn, ‘Thrawn.’
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I don’t remember writing this author’s note - this fic is one of the first I ever wrote - but lol, on brand of me. (it’s “I cannot imagine my life without you in it/as a part of it” iirc)
screencap of text: “2. Delenn's last line ("I cannot imagine...") is, of course, not mine. It turns up in the show twice: Sheridan says it to Delenn, and then Delenn says it to Lennier.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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‘Additional Tags’ on your AO3 works page is like a window into the soul.
list of AO3 tags: “• Additional Tags x) Angst (21) × Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (14) X Canon-Typical Violence (12) X Pre-Canon (10) X Infidelity (9) Alien Culture (8) Canon Compliant (7) X Gap Filler (7) X Minbari (Babylon 5) (7)”
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I love my husband.
imessage conversation: message says “I am doing a Gantt chart” with a sad emoji, and reply is a screenshot from the Expanse of Arjun and Chrisjen Avasarala with her saying “Fuck.”
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
eyeofacat.bsky.social
this fucking job, I swear
Andor screencap of Mon Mothma drinking a shot with the caption of a tumblr post by “wolfythewitch” saying “This too shall pass but like holy fuck.””
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
eyeofacat.bsky.social
maybe we need more 40s b&w film noir vibes in a galaxy far far away
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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More of this particular type of sci-fi women please 🙏 (specifically: dedicated, experienced politician who despite being generally on Team Good Guys has made some deeply troubling ethical decisions)
Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica Season 1 Delenn from Babylon 5 Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse Mon Mothma from Andor
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Andor: 'What We Left Behind'. (58k words, 7/7 chapters, T). Kleya and Erskin, from children on Naboo to undercover spies on Coruscant to rebels on Yavin.

Gen, canon-compliant. Started with a 'how did they recruit him, anyway?' thought and grew. #MyFic

archiveofourown.org/works/705060...
Screenshot from Andor - Luthen and a young Kleya in a cafe on Naboo, with the rooftops of a town visible across the water behind them Text screenshot: ""Like all sorts, everything." Then he thinks, and she gets the impression he's not just reminiscing; he's paying a little too much attention to how she reacts. "How to care about things in a way that matters," he says. "She was arrested once, wasn't she? In the early days." "A lot of people were arrested then." He says it casually enough but his smile has tightened at the edges and his hand has stilled on the edge of his glass. "Oh, of course, yes, a whole mess," Kleya says, light enough to suggest that she's not really interested, stirring the half-dissolved stars that have sludged their way to the bottom of her own drink. "I heard she had it worse than most, though?" "No"" he says, and he's not smiling any more. She holds up her palms - oh I'm no threat, I was just making conversation, what would I know anyway. "I didn't intend it as a criticism." "You think getting arrested is a compliment?" "Depends what it's for, doesn't it?"
October 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This was great. Guardian bookshop described it as “Gay Rebecca meets The Talented Mr Ripley via Notes on a Scandal”, which it really is, & it's just painful and beautiful about grief and memory and the kinds of legacy people leave. 💙📚
Book cover of a book by Justin Myers, 'The Glorious Dead', 'There are three sides to every story...'
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Good sunsets at the moment
Photo: Silhouette of a tree with half its leaves left against sunset clouds
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I never feel like we get enough political system worldbuilding in sci-fi, so all hail Mon Mothma canonically trying to deal with Palpatine by turning the Empire into a constitutional monarchy.
book text from Alexander Freed's 'The Mask of Fear': "Mon raised the datapad she'd brought as a prop. "I've laid out a framework for what I'm calling the Imperial Rebirth Act. My goal is not to create a public stir or incur the ire of Palpatine's supporters. I will argue this bill clarifies the new division of powers, that it will streamline decision-making and guide future legislation in this bold new era. In reality, the bill is designed to secure the Senate's position and avert executive overreach while allowing Palpatine to save face. "We will accept that we are an Empire now, then turn the Emperor into a glorified figurehead while his supporters dismiss the bill as bureaucratic nonsense. Palpatine will of course be"
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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yeah, there’s space for Gandalf to have been around previously. HoME (the ‘he’ here is Glorfindel):
Photo of book text: “power lau beel greatly enhanced by his self-sacrifice. At some time, probably early in his sojourn in Valinor, he became a follower, and a friend, of Olórin (Gandalf), who as is said in The Silmarillion had an especial love and concern for the Children of Eru. 13 That Olórin, as was possible for one of the Maiar, had already visited Middle-earth and had become acquainted not only with the Sindarin Elves and others deeper in Middle-earth, but also with Men, is likely, but nothing is [> has yet been] said of this.”
October 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM