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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This reminds me of the way droves of fratboys used to roam campus all dressed in identical khakis and red polo shirts (school color), they learn early on how to wear the accepted uniform

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The people opposite me have put an inflatable dog wearing a Santa hat up in their yard, and have strewn white lights across the bushes, and I keep looking at the date like ..............

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me in my car: why does it smell like lilacs? It is not the time of year for lilacs! Who has lilacs right now? Also me in my car: omg wait I put in that smelly thing with lilac scent lololol I knew it was going to throw me off at this time of year

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also, like, whenever anyone says, "Why don't you use ChatGPT to write fic???" I'm like, why would I want to do nothing but editing, editing is the worsttttttttt, writing is the fun part. (Maybe they're saying use ChatGPT for editing but I don't want it messing up my writing lolololol)

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a bit in the Sherlock baseball AU where Lestrade snaps that they're going to write their memoirs and call them "How We Were Gay and Right About Everything" and I love this line so much, I want you to understand how many shenanigans I'm going through to keep it lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I never use Wattpad but every time I have to engage with it I'm like, god, is this the most annoying website ever???????

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I find it hilarious when my credit card sends me an email like, "You've been selected for a new special offer!" and the special offer is like, "For a $499 annual fee, we will continue being your credit card" lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The weather here is totally gaslighting me, like, by 5pm it had convinced me it was the middle of the night and I should have been in bed hours ago.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, it's been so long since I read/wrote this story, Sherlock's mother just arrived and I'm like, in shock! Hahahaha! I'm like, omg this is such a good plot twist, well done, me!!!! lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's a whole plot in my baseball AU about how Moriarty was gambling on the games, and the world has changed so much since I wrote it that I had to add an entire conversation about whether anyone even cares about that stuff anymore

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The new protagonist of my rewritten baseball AU no longer plays the violin, which means I cut the bit where Sherlock plays John's at-bat song when he wakes up hungover the morning after the ASG. But I want you to know: It KILLED me to lose that bit. Still one of my fave moments I've ever written lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This Boston Globe piece is hilarious to me. Tech people being like "the world is already too dependent on AI!!!!" Guys, all of your products are terrible now with the embedded AI, take it out and fix them.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This woman on this show is doing an art project with her toddlers where they're painting picture frames and they're all wearing white sweaters and I am agog at either the confidence or the hubris.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another study I assume people have done involves straight married men flirting with David Bromstad on My Lottery Dream Home.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My sister is on a flight that got diverted from Providence to JFK. I asked on Reddit if anyone knew why this might happen. I was just curious. Multiple people immediately said that obviously you expect to land in a different city sometimes. ????? I can't with the world anymore.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's a lot of weird stuff about being in the hospital but one of the weirdest is how they make you share a room. I know more about this random stranger's bathroom happenings than I know about my own tbh.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I assume there's a study out there about how part of Disney moms' obsession with Disney is the park's hyper-schedulization gives them an illusion of control they lack in everyday life.

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arnaerr 🦭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last week I published a fic of a few thousand words in length. I might have called it a ficlet. But I see people referring to as a drabble. I know language changes but I am a purist in this lol. A drabble is exactly 100 words! My fic is much more than a mere drabble!!!

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There seems to be a trend now to call primary bedrooms "signature bedrooms," and I don't like it lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

guys, can we all just imagine ARTHUR'S FACE RIGHT NOW

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me looking at my WIP: Sigh. There should be probably another sex scene here. Me steadfastly ignoring the temptation to just put [insert sex scene here] lol

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

essential reading if you saw that NYT article about Heated Rivalry AI fanfic a few weeks ago - or if you're interested in the current state of independent journalism.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I posted a fic in a verse I last posted in ten years ago, and the comments being like "I texted my college bestie as soon as I got this notification," like, I'm so honored my stories were there in people's lives and I'm so glad ten years later they're moments of connection.

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026

"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've been re-reading Inceptionfic and also my nieces are deep into the NeeDoh craze and if I were writing Lucky today there would definitely be a fic where Eames gets deep into counterfeit NeeDohs and being overly threatening over his little girl being ripped off.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have been reading so many books over the past few years and honestly most of them have been really terrible. Whenever people are like "fic is training wheels for 'real' writing!" I want to be like, "Look, let me curate a fic reading list for you, because fic blows 'real' writing out of the water."

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have been in lots of fandoms and truly Inception has so much high quality fic, even after all this time, it's the best lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I make writing playlists for all of my fics. I'm working on editing a story now, but the playlist that existed for the fic isn't fitting the new version, so I put on a playlist full of songs I ADORE. But now I'm thinking so much of the fic this playlist was for and missing it hahaha bad idea.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My neighborhood had a single strip of old trees left in it from its undeveloped time. We think over 100 years old. So they were big. New person bought the lot and just chopped all the trees down. All day our yards have been full of chattering birds. I think they're discussing where to relocate.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wrestling with the forty-pound bag of salt to get it from the back of my car to the backyard where my swimming pool is is more logistical proof that I could never disposed of a dead body.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One of the best smells in the world is freshly shucked corn, straight from the farm.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I read somewhere that August feels like an entire month full of Sunday nights and that's seriously all I can think of all the time now lol I just feel so like that the whole month

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My bank's app has replaced its search function with an AI bot. It asked me what I wanted to do. I said transfer money. It asked me all the relevant details. I was like "wow, is this actually going to work????" No. It linked me to my account statement and asked if that's what I wanted lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm going to start a thread that's "off things the AI summary I never wanted in my weather app tells me." Just now it told me it will be pleasant for the rest of the day. It's 10pm. Weird to phrase it that way. Just, like, not right. You know?

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I hate driving so deeply. Being on the roads is just being surrounded by a bunch of constantly enraged people all the time. You might be like "you must be a bad driver who's upsetting people" but truly sometimes I'm just like, exhausted. My nephew is so excited to drive, I'm like, good luck.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My least favorite question on any reality show is when someone asks with intense concern, "you're getting emotional. Why?" Literally every single thing about reality TV is obviously designed to deliberately make people emotional. I just hate when hosts pretend otherwise. It irks me.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This chef on this episode of Chopped named his daughter Roux. I kind of love that.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Alright, so my neighbors have this high frequency device in their backyard. I guess it's supposed to be an animal repellant??? Is there anything we can do in our yard to make this noise less annoying? I know we can talk to our neighbors but we don't have the best relationship with these neighbors.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Our neighbors have installed some device that every couple of minutes briefly emits a whine so high-pitched that it's like a hearing test. The older folks can't hear it at all but for the younger ones it's agony. Any idea what this thing could be??? And why it's legal??????

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In the modern era, no one talks on the phone as much as uber drivers do

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Always very welcoming when a new neighbor moves in and immediately plasters their suburban house with NO TRESPASSING and YOU ARE BEING RECORDED signs.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

okay, at this point I am basically just writing a whole new novel. I remain impressed by people who talk of "filing the serial numbers" off of a fic like that's an easy process. I literally feel like I agreed to give this a try and it was just tricking me into writing a novel lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

People who come to coffee shops to work and spend the entire time making phone calls, like, you couldn't have done this somewhere else where you weren't bothering other people? I know it happens, but this guy walked in an hour ago and has never stopped calling people.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And even WITH government regulations, they barely check their food. FDA letters to food production companies are routinely horrifying.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Still working on revising this fic. This is a story I wrote, oh, maybe fourteen years ago? And haven't really re-read it since then. So now, revising it, I'm like, .....wait, I didn't write what happened there? I just skipped that scene? Why would I make that choice????? Frowning at past me lol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"who decided that the AI should be given my memory that I want and need?" Is only one of the dystopian sentences we find ourselves uttering these days

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Omg this house has 27 Christmas trees! Which I point out because I keep writing Christmas fics where, with their surplus Christmas romance joy, they keep getting multiple Christmas trees lololol

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Always so bewildered by houses that are like three bedrooms and seven bathrooms. That house sounds out of balance to me.

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My Internet Identity @earlgreytea68.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today I went in a store that literally had Thanksgiving stuff out. Not even Halloween. Thanksgiving. What do you think would happen if consumerism let us actually enjoy the season we're in? Would the entire national economy collapse????

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