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vacantgodling · 4 months
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I don't have that emoji but I'd love to hear a ramble about gothica
OOO thank you for asking jack!!
so gothica is a funny wip—in the sense that i deadass wasn’t supposed to get attached to the characters AT ALL (ESPECIALLY lennon god she is a Mess) because i originally wanted to write a “commentary” of sorts on dark academia literature: mainly the facet that the main girl character who’s usually in the middle of a love triangle is like. ngl kind of a bitch?? but no one ever views her that way. and i went into this with the full intention of that but what i ended up with is a ot3 and caring about them 🙄
cuz this one has a super official long summary i’ll post that and then some other rambles under a cut!
tw for (essentially) domestic violence and high schoolers getting freaky :/
THE SUMMARY
Lennon Rhapsody Granger has always struggled to stay out of trouble in school; it led to her parents divorce after the third expulsion, and getting sent to Holy Oaks Preparatory School by her stepfather after the fifth. Holy Oaks Prep is a reform school to “rehabilitate troubled youths to conquer modern society”, separated into a boys campus (Maple Wing) and a girl’s campus (Pine Hills). After orientation, Lennon is shown to her room and meets her dorm-mates for the semester Lauren Mortimer and Agatha Reuter. Lauren’s “boyfriend” from Maple Wing, Aurora O’Rion is visiting and he hides in Lennon’s closet when dorm inspection occurs. Lennon finds herself immediately drawn to Aurora and he seems to have no problem flirting with her in front of Lauren, which seems to immediately earn Agatha’s ire. During first lessons, Lennon ends up alienating herself/making a fool of herself in front of her peers and she decides she doesn’t need their good graces either.
The one person Lennon seems to get along with is Aurora; he frequents her dorm to see Lauren—though spends more time talking with Lennon instead—and the two begin to start sneaking out after curfew. Aurora seems almost untouchable by the rules and regulations of Holy Oaks and Lennon learns that it’s because he’s a treasured lackey of The Centurion who have their headquarters on campus. Lennon begins to accompany Aurora on his Centurion errands: intimidation, destroying evidence, etc, and grows to love the freedom being with Aurora provides—thus beginning to like him romantically in the process. The feeling seems to be mutual, and less and less does Aurora pop by to see Lauren. This causes friction between Lennon and both of her roommates and she begins to get into more trouble with their superiors, because Agatha, unbeknownst to Lennon, has been snitching and trying to actively sabotage her.
This doesn’t deter the two of them initially—at least until word of Aurora’s closeness with Lennon reaches the ears of The Centurion. By the time that Aurora recieves a reprimand to “mind his time wisely” he suspects that they may know of his budding feelings towards Lennon and are trying to remind him to take the easy way out so he begins to try and cut ties with Lennon, on the advice of his best friend and roommate, Morrigan Briarcos. Lennon however, is not so willing to let things go, and gets caught up in her pursuit of this “forbidden romance” despite the signs that Aurora and others may try to tell her, even Lauren offering her words of advice. Lennon and Aurora consummate their relationship, which only complicates things further because after that Aurora really begins to put distance between himself and Lennon. After not seeing Aurora for a few months after that, Lennon is captured.
Lennon is brought before The Centurion’s council where it is decided that for her grandiose crime of getting too close to one of their subordinates that she will be put to death. Lennon assumes that this is all a joke, until Aurora enters the arena that she’s being held in with his shirt off and fists wrapped. She thinks this is all an elaborate joke at first (despite what she’s already seen Aurora being capable of), but then begins to plead with him to spare her—that she loves him. But that does not deter Aurora. Aurora nearly kills her on their word but he opts to “let her bleed out” as a show for the council, leaving Lennon barely hanging onto life and in immense pain. When the council leaves, presuming she is dead, Aurora returns to clean up the scene but instead of disposing her body he brings Morrigan with him to administer aid; with the goal to help her escape to safety away from The Centurion’s clutches away from Holy Oaks to continue on with her life.
Lennon barely survives her injuries, but awakens in a hideaway with only Morrigan there with her, informing her that she’s been in and out of consciousness for two weeks and she would need intense physical therapy in order to recover enough to be returned to her family or a hospital. Lennon grapples with trauma surrounding the event, and her complicated feelings towards Aurora and the new feelings she is gaining for Morrigan who has been very vigilant in taking care of her. When she finally confesses her attraction to him, Morrigan shuts her down, revealing that he’s done all this for Aurora, who he’s been in love with for ages and that she needs to grow up because they tried to keep her out of this but she was selfish. This revelation is a shock to Lennon and she begins to examine how she’s been viewing and treating people for her whole life. In an effort to get Lennon out of Holy Oaks, Morrigan and Aurora decide they must disappear as well and the three of them strike out on their own, in an attempt to escape The Centurion’s clutches.
SOME RAMBLES
lennon rhapsody is deadass her first name, named after john lennon and bohemian rhapsody. her mother and father met and fell in love with music, and their second daughter who is len’s irish twin jude crahan is also deadass her first name. she also has a younger brother from her mother’s second marriage named jacob.
this story takes place in 2013 (oof). there is going to be a sequel as well that takes place 3 years after this so that begins in like 2017-2018-ish
the reason len’s mother got remarried is bc deadass len’s bio dad couldn’t take how rambunctious and fucking out of pocket she is. her behavior essentially tore their relationship apart and has greatly strained her mother’s relationship with her stepfather.
nothing “happened” in len’s childhood to make her like this. i purposefully am writing her as insufferable as i can.
len’s white, aurora is mixed, morrigan is black (they’re also the ot3 that comes out of this)
len has what we like to call “main character syndrome” where she really just Does Not think about how her actions have an affect on other people and she’s self centered, arrogant, and just kind of a piece of shit.
aurora isn’t any better bc he’s an entitled playboy who’s hit and quit like half of pine hills. but in typical dark academia fashion, len is “special”
aurora and morrigan have both been apart of the centurion since they were 5 years old. idk or really care what their goal is it’s just ur run of the mill scientology type bullshit idc
the thing is though they do dabble with experiments of human powers and aurora is one of those subjects. he has super strength and his eyes glow yellow.
in the confrontation between len and aurora in front of the centurion leaders, he breaks both of her legs. this causes her permanent damage and while she can use crutches, she is wheelchair bound going into the second book (and for the rest of her life).
though morrigan would describe himself as gay, len is his “exception” (genuine) even though he pretends to not like her in the second book.
the first book doesn’t end with them in a relationship but the second book they’re all clearly dating each other and on the run.
the second book centers around 2 plots which is (1) the centurion trying to hunt down the three of them before they can reveal their secrets to the world and (2) len’s parents and sister raising hell to find len because the school is being super shady about what happened to her. this literally gets national media attention and an investigation is launched into the school, which is why the centurion REEEALLY wants the three of them dead.
len reunites with her family in the second book as well and she realizes that they don’t hate her but her actions pushed her away from them. since everything in the first book len’s been working on becoming a better person and she finally apologizes for the first time to her family for not caring about their needs as much as her own. aurora and morrigan are also working on becoming better people too and they’ve worked on a Lot of communication to get here i’m proud of them.
morrigan doesn’t have special powers. he also hates when people call him mori but len and aurora do it anyway.
back to book 1 for a second, agatha’s family is associated with the centurion as well and she’s had a crush on aurora since they were kids. however despite having fucked half the campus, aurora has never looked at her or flirted with her even ONCE (mainly bc she’s the daughter of a council member she’s strictly off limits, not that she knows that). she’s made it her sole mission to sabotage every relationship aurora has ever been in and she succeeds most of the time (as in, snitching on len and aurora. though she wasn’t expecting them to reprimand aurora as well lol. aurora kinda beats her ass when he finds out she snitched)
lauren seems like a completely normal girl and why is she there that’s weird? it’s just cuz she’s a kleptomaniac and has committed arson like twice. she’s been working hard to do better for her family actually but yknow.
OOF okay i could go on for forever but i think ive word vomitted at you enough LMAO
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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2020 Drama Round Up!
Jock’s Alphabetical Watched List
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Ancient Detective
Rating: 🧣🧣🧣🧣🧣 5/5 cozy winter garments
Watch Status: done! ✅
The Good Stuff:
The MC is, objectively, the coziest man alive
MC said “simp rights” and honestly...good for him
I guessed the ~final twist~ really early, but it didn’t dampen my enjoyment of each individual case or the show as a whole!
Any Bad Stuff?
The last few episodes are like...oddly homophobic? With a queer-coded character presented in a somewhat grotesque stereotype? SAD!!
🌸 more reviews under the cut 🌸
Ever Night (S1)
Rating: 🌂🌂🌂🌂 4/5 inexplicably magic umbrellas
Watch Status: ...like 30% done
The Good Stuff:
Some of the BEST fight scenes I’ve seen
Lots of interesting world building!
My queen Meng Ziyi 👑
Any Bad Stuff?
God the MC’s hair is UGLY 😔 pour one out 😔
Guardian
Rating: 👬👬👬👬👬 5/5 gays
Watch Status: done! ✅
The Good Stuff:
It doesn’t get any gayer than this folks
Really this is some of the queerest media I’ve ever seen
Also the main and ensemble characters are all endearing and fun 🐍
All I know is have diarrhea and be hindrance
Any Bad Stuff?
The middle portion of this show DRAAAAGS
Also ZYL’s hair makeover is awful and someone needs to say it !!!!!
Legend of Fei
Rating: 🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰 5/5 dog safe chestnuts
Watch Status: still airing
The Good Stuff:
The pure yibotonin in this show could power a city or at least one depressed viewer (me)
Zhou Fei could and frankly should kick my ass
I love her your honor
Any Bad Stuff?
Has the odd effect of each plot arc feeling both way too long AND like you’ve been crammed way too full of information
Maiden Holmes
Rating: 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️ 5/5 superior detection skills
Watch Status: one night and 15 episodes in
The Good Stuff:
The main pairing is so fucking cute guys. He loves her so much. He thinks she’s so smart 🥺
Includes one of the purest archetypes of a himbo on screen today 🤌
Crime solving! Hidden identities! Bisexual panics!
Any Bad Stuff?
One episode includes a pretty long assault scene / near r*pe of a main character - the scene is flashed back to throughout the episode, as well
Oh My General!
Ranking: 💪💪💪💪 4/5 beefy lady biceps
Watch Status: like 25% done because FUCK it’s long
The Good Stuff:
Literally EVERYONE in this show is bi. I have the screenshots to prove it. It’s glorious
call me old fashioned, but i was raised to serve my general. clean for her. cook for her and everything i do is for her. and if she cheats? that is on me! she caught me slipping and i will apologize and do better.
Any Bad Stuff?
My only complaint so far is the romance takes awhile to pick up? I’m pretty tired of the main love interest being rude to his objectively incredible wife >:(
S.C.I.
Ranking: 🐭🐭🐭 3/5 mouse archetypes
The Good Stuff:
The pacing is quick! Sometimes too quick? I got lost a lot @___@
Bai Yutong is simply TOO ripped
Any Bad Stuff?
Honestly this show is a bit of a poorly edited, problematic dumpster fire with not even a passing understanding of what psychology is
...but god if it isn’t fun to watch
Silent Criminal
Rating: 🥸🥸🥸🥸 4/5 conveniently disguised emperors
Watch Status: done! ✅
The Good Stuff:
They’re gay and in love your honor
Honestly the two leads really grew on me! I found myself wanting to rewatch their interactions
Not a whole lot of actual crime solving :(
Any Bad Stuff?
Yet another example of the tragic underutilization of female characters with potential 😔 justice for the ladies of this show
There is an assault scene (a character straddles a main character and forces a kiss while he protests). Easily skippable and not referenced again
Sword Dynasty
Rating: 🐛🐛🐛🐛 4/5 divine silkworms
Watch Status: just started (like 3 eps in)
The Good Stuff:
The fight scenes are very wuxia and very fun
Idk what the fuck is going on, but I’m pretty sure the emperor deserves to be stabbed, so go off I guess!
Any Bad Stuff?
Honestly I have barely begun this so ... idk yet!
Tale of the Nine Tailed
Rating: 🦊🦊🦊🦊 4/5 immortal foxes
Watch Status: mostly done
The Good Stuff:
Lee Yeon is very hot and that’s a fact
Nam Ji Ah (main female lead) is SO powerful and SO amazing and LITERALLY my queen
She stabs her fake mom when she’s , like , 5!
The communication b/w the leads??? Iconic
Any Bad Stuff?
This is just me, but I truly cared so little about the Imoogi. I just. Wanted an episodic monster of the week with all the same characters. Pls
The Lost Tomb Reboot
Rating: 👨‍🦰👨‍🦰👨‍🦰 3/5 bad mustache disguises
Watch Status: I stopped watch once [SPOILER] Wu Xie was cured, because I just ... don’t care about the mob politics? So for me that was where the show ended
The Good Stuff:
Zhu Yilong is like ... way too fucking pretty
Also the Wu Xie & Pangzi friendship is so FUN in this show!!!!
Everyone is 2 hot 2 handle
Any Bad Stuff?
Not nearly enough Iron Triangle hangouts >:(
Shockingly large amounts of white collar crime, shockingly few tombs
Every lady is CHRONICALLY underused and/or murdered. Yawn.
The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty
Rating: 🎩🎩🎩🎩 4/4 detective hats
Watch Status: I’m always on / off with this show 😔 I’m like 2/3 done now
The Good Stuff:
Crimes !! Solving crimes !! Gay domesticity !! What more could you ask for
One of the best OT3 set ups in the business
Any Bad Stuff?
Silly hats
For folks with secondhand embarassment issues, the main lead can be ... hard
The Untamed
Rating: 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 5/5 soft bunny metaphors
Watch Status: Done! ✅
The Good Stuff:
Everyone in this show is so pretty I’m convinced it’s illegal
Like if this didn’t pass censorship it wouldn’t be because of the obvious gay longing but rather because it’s setting unrealistic expectations for beauty
Also: the gayest longing around. And murder!
Any Bad Stuff?
Nothing this show is perfect in every way
(Except like maybe don’t kill or write off all your women ... thoughts)
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the-darklings · 3 years
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jean and v are superior. can't change my mind. (I adore them 🥺💜🥺💜)
honestly it's funny because I always said I understood the merits and the appeal of each individual V ship in the past. I could always appreciate why someone was on a particular team - they each have their own little 'thing' that separates them from others.
Jean honestly has the energy of being the secret ending in a dating sim - the true ending, if you will. he doesn't take away from the beauty of other relationships or their value. but he is the absolute testament to V's growth from an empty shell to a fully realised character that's actually tangible now. he's the one who fits the person V is now the best. every emotion from good to bad is amplified with him. they challenge each other the most, have the most (you won't notice at first) similarities between them, a deep running understanding. they're so horny for each other it's embarrassing. what he draws from her is so uniquely his no other person could really do that to her whether in coa or npfh. there is a reason why in npfh, yes Clara has past lovers, but it's just Jean for her. no love triangles (honestly their story alone makes the relationship dramas of coa look mild by comparison lmao and not in the way you think). and yes, we have the ot3 too but that's technically au, and even then, the way those three understand each other, others could envy if only because they understand the ugliest parts and don't flinch away or ask to change.
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takaraphoenix · 3 years
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At the point of Meredith and Callie kissing out of routine because Callie is living with Meredith and Derek and they’re raising their kids together, I gotta say. Man, I wish this show learned about polyamory.
There is so many instances of unnecessary love-triangles.
And honestly, one of the things I love about this show is how... largely non-toxic the love triangles are. Sure, there’s a love triangle going on, but aside from the very rare outliner where cheating is involved (Callie/George vs George/Izzy), the two pending ends actually have great chemistry and no bitch fights.
Be that Meredith and Addison over Derek in season 2, I loved how Addison never stooped low and was never a mean bitch to Meredith about things, she always knew that Meredith’s situation was awkward and complicated. But Meredith and Addison’s dynamic was incredibly interesting and I still think they’d have been a great OT3.
Owen, when he was torn between Teddy and Cristina? Quite frankly, the Teddy/Cristina angle was the most interesting part of that love-triangle and at no point did either of them try to scratch the other’s eyes out over Owen, they both valued their own relationship far too much for that.
I love that Mark/Callie and Callie/Arizona basically ended up platonically raising Sofia together, it was the closest they got and I do love Mark and Callie as friends far more than in a romantic sense.
But Mark and Jackson with Lexie? Again, Mark and Jackson were the most interesting canon dynamic there. I loved how Mark took Jackson under his wing, despite them competing for the same girl, he never used his position against Jackson, he nurtured Jackson’s skills and was downright doting - seriously, that scene when Jackson left to take his bars exam and Mark went “Do you have enough cash with you? *puts a 20 in Jackson’s pocket*” was just precious.
I really, truly wish that someone would introduce the writers room of Grey’s Anatomy to polyamory. Because while their love triangles are superior to many other shows’ where there is bitch fights and low blows, I would still love for them, at one point, to learn that they can resolve a love triangle with some nice, good polyamory.
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a-crimson-lion · 4 years
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Oops, I Did It Again...
Moral Alignment (Shipping Edition)
Lawful Good: The Loyal Shipper
"I just like this particular pairing. Stuck with it since day one. It's fine if you ship other things, though."
-Has only one ship, is content.
-Thinks other ships are neat too, but isn't nearly as invested.
-Is respectful of other people's shipping opinions... most of the time.
Neutral Good: The Multishipper
"They all deserve so much love!!!"
-Has several ships, can't decide how to solve some of their love triangles.
-Heavily invested in the character dynamics.
-They are constantly at war with themselves because they have yet to hear of polyamory; they still stick by their ships, though.
Chaotic Good: The Mega-Poly Shipper
"Look at me. Look at me! I'm the captain now. And you can pry these ships from my cold, dead hands."
-OT3s, OT4s, Poly Ships, Harems, Reverse Harems, Giant Polyamories; they have no limits.
-Love triangle? You mean OT3. Master of polyamory.
-The Multishipper's next logical stage; probably has way too many emotions and/or hormones, but they're fine.
Lawful Neutral: The Casual Shipper
"Huh. They're kinda cute..."
-The type to get dragged into ships without any agency of their own.
-Doesn't ship often or as passionately compared to other shippers.
-Just going with the flow.
True Neutral: The "Agree To Disagree" Shipper
"I get where your coming from, but... it's just not my thing."
-Has a few ships for various personal reasons.
-Will respect your opinion on various ships they don't ship. Will also explain why they ship what they ship if you ask.
-Probably shouldn't push them to their limits; some people are slow to anger, not void of it.
Chaotic Neutral: The Whatever Shipper
"Eh, okay. I guess..."
-Really doesn't care about a ship, even if it's canon and/or heaviky reveered in canon.
-Doesn't look into ships often, so they usually stay out of the discourse.
-Will only give a ship the side eye if they belive something is GLARINGLY off about it.
Lawful Evil: The Callout Shipper
"This ship is WRONG because blah blah blah..."
-Tries to restrain themselves from attacking other ships, 50/50 chance they'll go off anyway.
-May or may no have legitimate points against the ship in question.
-Tolerated because they make an effort to not excessively criticize.
Neutral Evil: The Obsessive Shipper
"THIS IS THE HILL I WILL DIE ON, AND ALL YOU NAYSAYERS CAN DROWN ONCE MY SHIP SAILS!!!"
-Has only one ship, but is far less content than the Loyal Shipper. See quote, "This is why we can't have nice things..."
-Hates any ship that "gets in the way" of their ship. If you don't like their ship (or just don't actively ship it), prepare for spam and slander. They take no prisoners.
-Definitely the kind of person who'd hate a character for "ruining" their ship.
Chaotic Evil: The Ranking Shipper
"Lowly peasants. My ship is clearly superior to your senseless rubbish!"
-There's far, there's too far, and then there are these people.
-Will actively put down other ships (crack or otherwise) simply because they believe it's stupid; doesn't get certain AUs with different ships.
-Next level Obssessive Shipper. Almost always on a high horse; their fall will either be glorious or horrifying, depending on what happens afterwards.
Once again, these are not meant to be taken seriously! I just did this for fun. See y'all next time!
-Crimson Lion (24 April 2020)
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mousemarner · 6 years
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Idk how to word this in a way that won't have people yelling in my inbox but I just have to say it is BEWILDERING how much y'all think the solution to ALL multishipping or love triangles or any situation where a person has more than one potential love interest is just THEY ALL DATE! OT3! OT4!!!
Like. I mean fine I guess, you aren't hurting anyone and like poly relationships exist and are fine but people truly think they are MORE Woke and progressive by making everyone poly and like. No. You're not. There's literally nothing inherently superior, more interesting, or better about it, sorry?
And "just make it poly" is NOT always a solution, or the better or "right" solution. People aren't always compatible, and aren't always compatible in or with that structure. Thats okay! It doesn't have to be like this! You can just...ship multiple things. It'll be okay I promise.
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sanzoumon · 7 years
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I've been accused of "pushing" incest ships on people before, even tho I don't.
But y'all ain't seen ship pushing like people who push polyships onto others. They act like polyshipping is the be-all-end-all of shipping and the fucking solution to all things shipping related and that's it's so superior. But worse yet they act like you should ship it without saying that (well, usually) by claiming the ship is fact or pure or just better than anything else the fandom has ever produced.
What annoys the everloving fuck outta me is the gutlessness of it all tho. Oh sure there is smut, sometimes even kinky smut, and I can respect that. But I never see anything "bad" in polyships. I don't see the relationships being portrayed as flawed or unhealthy or abusive, they're always so perfect and any problems with it are caused externally.
The other thing is I INTENSELY hate polyshipping as a "solution" to a love triangle. Why? Because personally if I were on one end of a triangle and the other two decided a poly relationship was the only solution I'd promptly tell them to fuck off. Because that's a slap in the face to me. A huge fucking insult.
So when someone tries to push a polyship onto me for whatever damn reason, ESPECIALLY if it involves a character I relate to, I tend to get angry. Like okay I get that to YOU a polyship is ideal or whatever but to me you might as well be spitting on my fave and saying they're not special and don't deserve to be looked at like they're amazing and wonderful by someone who doesn't look at anyone else like that because they're so captivated by this character alone.
But what I really hate is when people go "why have ship wars when you can polyship instead?"
...I'll be honest, that makes me want to beat you up and stuff you inside a locker. No. The correct thing is "why have ship wars when you can multiship instead?" See, by definition, multishipping includes polyships but also includes the potential for all ships, thus negating the ship war in the first place. In other words, you can like both things - you don't need to pick. But if you like one and both the other, that's fine too! Just don't be a dick.
And I don't care if people like polyships, of course not. They squick me the hell out and I complain, sure, but if you like them then that's your business. I just hate the pushing.
It annoys me because no one complains about their shit while I've been accused of pushing ships simply by enjoying them - even tho I've never insisted people had to ship them or should or tried to guilt people into it or whatever method of coercion you wanna say. I just fangirl. I enjoy the ship. I don't push.
People just don't like it because it's incest and that's all fine and good but don't fucking accuse me of pushing ships when others are out there pushing ships for real and you just don't give a shit because as it happens you like those ships or don't disapprove of them at the very least.
Ugh. For real tho, no offense meant to polyshippers. Just realize that no polyships are not the solution to everything in ships. Nor are they ideal relationships. Maybe they are to you, that's fine. But don't assume everyone feels the same.
Also man oh man do I wish we could just block single posts from the people we follow. I follow prompt blogs. So many grating OT3 prompts. Ugh, just so many.
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