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fucking jfk. i've been at half a dozen different airports this week and stuff has moved pretty well and now it's like haha great, you arrived on schedule! perfect. sit here on the tarmac for an indeterminate amount of time because we don't know where to put you. welcome to america, fuck off

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i took a tour today with a very nice kid and was like. hmm. so i goosed the batsignal and talked about a friend of mine and his partner and the kid lit up and got even friendlier and we had the most amazing day

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i'm in a "beijing"-themed hotel (but not in china) and i have to be honest when i walked in last night after twenty hours of airplanes and highly varied airport vibes... my body saw hanging scroll landscapes and caoshu script and instantly relaxed

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i love purchasing an airline ticket with a normal layover and then discovering at check-in that one of the flights is (now) being "operated" by another airline, so i'll have to go through immigration and baggage claim and then BACK through security just to take the second half of my flight

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Netflix can make a version of "Heated Rivalry" that's just hockey with a straight couple, I can make a version of beloved CBS drama "Touched By An Angel (1994)" that's just that angel coming to earth and fucking each and every individual person that it sees

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ah lads @popeurbanfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god grant me a big stick to change the things that can be changed with a big stick

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/09/2026

Some old drawings of a young Wonder Woman I did while working on my Black and Gold short story.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the quilt made of ribbons is now ten million times more beautiful

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the dialect quiz was like I Diagnose You With New Jersey—clearly because it wants to physically fight me in the wells fargo center parking lot—Or Possibly Rural... Illinois? so thanks for that bit, dad. keeping me statistically illegible

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is hanging by my door. I think a lot of us need him by the door

I am not in trouble and no one is mad at me

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 30/08/2026

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

drank so much bourbon on the boat yesterday that i briefly Saw kentucky like a dead wife montage

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

another lesbian boat day is (nearly) upon us. i have seen the photo of the liquor pickup so i am bringing doritos and water and levelheadedness

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

my father purchased a cd player and two cds for my birthday, and in the store he urgently asked the clerk what a teenage girl would like, so my first two cds ever were "falling into you" and "jagged little pill"

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"hot rotten grass smell" is finished! chapter 3/3: archiveofourown.org/works/900558... (harringrove, explicit, season 2 canon divergence, mindflayer memory-swap shenanigans, heed warnings for violence and brief horror)

“Hang on,” Billy says.

There's a tote bag in the footwell of the beamer that looks like it's probably Nancy's; Billy rummages in it one-handed and comes up with a scarf.

“No!” Harrington says. Billy squeezes him. “Ah, Jesus,” Harrington sighs, and he grabs the scarf and wraps it around the end of his dick and tenses up. Then shudders bonelessly against the backseat. “Fuck,” Harrington breathes. He makes a dismayed face down at the scarf. Billy wipes his own damp hand on the dangling end of the fabric and just cracks the fuck up, loud as he feels like.

Harrington throws the scarf out of the open door when he's done with it. It disappears into the weeds.

“Glad you got a kick out of that,” he mutters, tucking himself in.

“You're lots of fun,” Billy grins.

Christ, what's wrong with him?

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

part 2/3 of "hot rotten grass smell" is posted! link: archiveofourown.org/works/900558... (harringrove, season 2 canon divergence, mindflayer shenanigans, memory swap, heed tags for violence and panic attacks) 🍃🍂🌿🪾🍁🌾🌱

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

i've never heard of sjögren's syndrome but uhhhhhh this is a list of all my "unrelated" symptoms that never seem to get fully managed by meds??

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

this is not how catholic superstition works

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

new fic!!! hot rotten grass smell. (harringrove, season 2 canon divergence, mindflayer memory shenanigans, endless fistfighting, the absolutely mortifying ordeal of getting really, really known) link: archiveofourown.org/works/900558...

Hot rotten grass smell.
By orange_crushed

Summary:
He’s got a dark blue jacket on, collar popped up. Lightwash jeans. When he turns around and glares out over the lot, squinting against the sun, Billy's guts sink into his seat and through the chassis to the pavement, splatting there like dropped ice cream. And then they swim up nauseatingly into his body again. Sweat prickles his neck, his hair stands up. For no good fucking reason at all. He can't say why and he can't tear his eyes away. Looking at Harrington is making his vision dilate, making little spots cross over everything like ash floating over a fire. He's going nuts.

Harrington’s got a black eye.

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning:
Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: M/M

Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)

Relationship: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington

Characters: Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Tommy Hagan

Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Alternate Reality
Background Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
Memory Alteration
Identity Swap
Shared Memories By Accident
Blood and Injury
Canon-Typical Violence
Fist Fights
The Quarry (Stranger Things)
Past Abuse
Vomiting
Choking
Near Drowning
Implied/Referenced Suicidal Thoughts
Internalized Homophobia
Shame
The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known
Very Brief Body Horror
Mind Flayer Vines..... Etc
Oral Sex
Hand Jobs
Falling In Love
Angst with a Happy Ending
soulmates not in a worldbuilding sense... in the sense that god made one asshole and split them in half for fun

Language: English

Published: 2026-08-08
Updated: 2026-08-08
Words: 5,402
Chapters:1/3

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

my thing about the stupidass sex purge movie is like... premarital sex is illegal 364 days a year, but on the ONE day everybody can screw, we're still doing all that makeup and waxing and picking club outfits? the sexiness industrial complex is still operating EXACTLY the SAME?? fuck off with this

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Joseph Cain @nightmarefixer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Who would question the intentions of one of TVs most genderfluid robots?

Crow T. Robot wearing a black shawl, red lipstick and a blown out blonde wig standing next to Mike Nelson in his blue jumpsuit with the Pelican Brief paperback in his hand.

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

still working on another weird harringrove fic, and they are still having an amazing time trapped in [redacted] and being wildly up in each other's business. if you saw this on tumblr already i'm sorry! i'm just so very excited to be tormenting billy hargrove

Harrington pushes his knees over and sits kind of under them, and closes the door so it’s warm again.

“I’m not going to tell anyone,” he says.

“If?” Billy prompts. Harrington stares at him.

“If we get out of here alive,” Harrington says, enunciating it slow like he thinks Billy’s a moron, “I’m not telling anybody.”

“There’s a lot I could say about you,” Billy says.

Harrington snorts. Rests his head backwards. His long neck stretches out, and his Adam’s apple makes a gentle hill.

“You want insurance?” Harrington says, bizarrely.

“Like what?”

“Like I blow you,” Harrington says.

Billy’s entire body flushes hot and cold. He kicks Harrington in the knee, but Harrington grabs his ankle and holds it tight, warningly. Billy’s dick throbs so hard his pulse is probably visible in his neck artery.

"Fuck off," Billy says.

"You want to win, right?” Harrington says. “Push me over, show me who’s boss? That’s the whole thing?”

He sounds almost bored, like he’s making fun of the idea. Making fun of Billy. Billy wants to curl into a ball like a worm and die. He’s getting hard.

“You’re full of shit.”

“I let you, and you fucking act normal from then on, how’s that,” Harrington says. “We don’t ever talk about it again.”

“Like I trust you,” Billy says.

“I’m the one taking it,” Harrington says, “so I’m not saying shit to anybody. Deal?”

“You’re nuts,” Billy says. “You that hungry for—”

“Going once,” Harrington says, tersely.

Billy bites his cheek.

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Frankly Can't Communicate @franklycant.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A couple of weeks ago my dad needed a lot of blood. It saved his life. Please, if you can donate, do — I wish I could.

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

birthday week is in progress...✌️🎂 🥳

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

yeah great question. is emily wilson even qualified to have an opinion on a style of writing which largely consists of dialogue meant to be performed aloud

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i don't agree with everything in emily wilson's review. but between wilson and the posters trying to prove her personal interpretation of the film is "wrong" because they assume she just *forgot* about tennyson's ulysses, i don't think the one looking bad there is wilson

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

misbehaving in the cha chaan teng style restaurant (because i am not actually IN a cha chaan teng and therefore did not have to take my own chopsticks from the—in my defense—very prominent bin)

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

through a series of yes-ands i ended up spending last night taking a walking tour and then going drinking with a group of fiftysomething korean engineers, and i hope they'll always treasure the buzzed selfies we took together

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

i'm teaching a summer workshop in [redacted] and they neglected to tell the faculty instructors that we were not in fact staying in a hotel, we are staying in dorm-style apartments with no toiletries, hair dryers, TOWELS OR WI-FI

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

i can go thinking blithely of myself as a nice person for weeks or even months until my mom messages me Just the right way! and then the veil is torn

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

my own voice. i just muttered "nice, yeah, pull so hard you tear it" out loud in a convenience store and followed it up with "ah yes, she sees it now" in the third person while fumbling a tap-to-pay kiosk in a bakery. what would change

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

still musing on the emphasized pissing and drowning inside the trojan horse. sure it has to be convincing but could it have been maybe ten feet up the beach? maybe pass a bottle around? could it- [touching my earpiece] no? you guys absolutely had to do it like that? uh. ok. you... must know best

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i have many criticisms of nolan's odyssey but a big one is not even his fault specifically: i'm just tired of films where every plot-linked character, major or minor, NEEDS to be portrayed by a huge immediately recognizable star. we can't have a character actor here for 5 minutes, we need THERON

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

i've been home not quite two (??) jetlagged days so, wip friday?? there's something billy hargrove can't remember, something that doesn't feel right about all this, and it's, uhhhh, probably pretty important

“You have to try,” Nancy says. “I’m serious. We really need to find—”

“I got it,” Billy huffs.

He grabs his bag, climbs out of the beamer. Slams the door and then regrets the noise it makes. Nancy rolls her eyes and walks off without waiting, sticking her little pointed chin in the air to make sure he knows he’s a big piece of shit. He watches her go. Frustration’s making his head throb. He should forget first period, go have a smoke behind the gym shed. He should fucking skip. He shivers for real now, the breeze cutting under his collar, and scuffs his boot in the gravel. Considers whether or not he can afford to blow the calc quiz.

When he looks up, he finds Harrington watching him at a distance. Standing on the curb by the bicycle rack, finishing a cigarette. His black eye’s so dark it looks painted on. Like the center of a target.

Billy’s heart pounds and pounds.

“Young man,” somebody hollers. It’s the French teacher, leaning out the front door. Billy takes Spanish because the guy’s a pushover, solo un idiota no podría aprobar. “Put that out! It’s thirty seconds to the bell!”

Harrington obediently flicks the cigarette away before he goes inside. It flies in an arc over the sidewalk and lands on the hood of a Ford.

“Oops,” Harrington says. “Windy.”

“Young man, you pick that up right—”

He goes right by her, unconcerned. Slides between bodies without touching anyone.

When Billy walks past the discarded butt, it’s still smoldering faintly. It takes all of his willpower not to pick it up and put the damp end in his mouth. He hasn't had a cigarette in three days because Nancy wants him to quit, Nancy doesn't like his breath tasting weird, Nancy won't let his fingers into her pussy if they look like they’ve got nicotine stains on them. A part of him wants to pick up Harrington's cigarette and eat it. He should probably get back in the car and drive himself to a psych ward. That would probably be the smart thing to do.

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Amy @pineappleheave.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of old professors told me after Savonarola was executed, some dude in Florence shouted “thank god, now we can practice sodomy again” he was real af for that

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I had the privilege of working with Senator Dracula on my bill offering tax cuts to family-owned mortuaries. While we disagreed on much and his horrible embrace has left me unable to endure sunlight, I'll always remember his amusing little jokes about exsanguinating my staff.

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orange @stilloranged.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

mr. orange: like that artist, the folk artist, who painted all those vaginas me: mr. orange: you know. grandma moses? me: me: baby that's. that's not me: [unintelligible hysterics] mr. orange: so is... that not who i'm thinking of

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