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cachedfeelingsMany books about the future carry an unspoken assumption: that progress is a force rather than a choice, and that humanity will simply be carried along by it.
Homo Deus leans heavily on this assumption.
The future presented here is not one shaped by politics, care, or collective struggle, but by optimisation—of bodies, of minds, of systems. Human experience is framed as something inefficient, already on the way to being surpassed. Meaning is treated as a placeholder until data arrives.
What is striking is not the ambition of this vision, but its narrowness. The future belongs to those with access: to technology, to capital, to the infrastructures that make enhancement possible. Everyone else appears only as a demographic trend, a statistical remainder.
There is very little curiosity here about refusal. About slowness. About the possibility that people might choose continuity over transcendence, maintenance over mastery. Care work, disability, ageing, and dependence—central facts of human life—are present mostly as problems to be solved rather than conditions to be lived with dignity.
Books like this often claim neutrality by appealing to inevitability. But inevitability is a story we tell when we do not want to talk about power. Futures do not arrive fully formed; they are built, unevenly, by people with names, interests, and blind spots.
I am less interested in predicting tomorrow than in asking who is allowed to imagine it—and who is expected to adapt quietly once it arrives.
goodbyebird+ Refrained from making this post until I had the icon that's been living in my head made and uploaded. (I have now opened my laptop two whole times this trip)
+ Fishery is still bad. People are here aalllll the tiiiime. I want to shove my face in a pillow and banshee shriek. I want to be in a small, slightly chilly and soundproof box. Absolute and utter isolation for one, please.
+ Adding to that, one of the crew has started sitting at my (usually empty) back table for meals, so now it's active conversation time on top of it all. And boy does she want to talk about how the solar flares are affecting her, and what are my thoughts on the aliens, she thinks they're friendly (watches yt about aliens every day). Girl, I know you know I'm into tarot, but we are Not The Same.
+ I'm not sleeping enough and it's not helping.
+ Did a silly and signed up for Fandom Trumps Hate. Do people still want icons at all time will tell š¤·š»āāļø Offered IWTV, Pluribus, and WoT with the fandom ticky boxes, "You're welcome to request specific pairings, characters, or scenes from those three fandoms. I am also willing to do icons from the following comics: Absolute Wonder Woman, Thompson's Birds of Prey, Wilson's Poison Ivy, Galaxy The Prettiest Star, Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, Far Sector, Abbott, Ahmed's Exiles." Should maybe have specified a number, but I figured I'd wait and see the bid amount to decide.
+ The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction.
On the surface, this feels like it should be a good thing: More fic readers means more people in fandom, right? Instead, I read post after post talking about how distant writers felt from these newer readersāhow impersonal and lonely the act of fannish creation has become. Anecdotes where readers gush about a fic on Discord, but make zero attempts to connect with the author. Screenshots of fic titles or passages with no URLsāand captions like, āI wish I could tell the person who wrote this how incredible it is.ā
+ To Fandom, With Love. (previously at Bitch Magazine, published 2020, now re-uploaded)
I also made friends through fanficāactual, honest-to-goodness close friends. Comments on each othersā fics turned into email correspondences that began with exchanging headcanons about our favorite characters, and expanded into mutual care and supportāoften around issues weād first broached anonymously in our respective works.
+ Neil Young trashes Amazon, gives his complete musical catalog to Greenland for free.
āAmazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,ā he wrote. āThe presidentās international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon. There are many ways to avoid Amazon and support individual Americans and American companies that supply the same products. I have done that with my music and people who are looking can find it in a lot of other places."
+ There is no such thing as other peopleās children.
+ Talking Greatness to Death. On Ryan Coogler's sins and the kinds of performances that attract vampires.
+ Does anybody want me to do a lil tarot draw for them? I can do A World Without Shrimp (feeling as though something is missing from your life, this spread can help you identify what you're craving), or Five By Five (general idea of how things are going).
+ Dropkick Murphy's performing Citizen I.C.E. live in Paris. Enjoy!
+ Fishery is still bad. People are here aalllll the tiiiime. I want to shove my face in a pillow and banshee shriek. I want to be in a small, slightly chilly and soundproof box. Absolute and utter isolation for one, please.
+ Adding to that, one of the crew has started sitting at my (usually empty) back table for meals, so now it's active conversation time on top of it all. And boy does she want to talk about how the solar flares are affecting her, and what are my thoughts on the aliens, she thinks they're friendly (watches yt about aliens every day). Girl, I know you know I'm into tarot, but we are Not The Same.
+ I'm not sleeping enough and it's not helping.
+ Did a silly and signed up for Fandom Trumps Hate. Do people still want icons at all time will tell š¤·š»āāļø Offered IWTV, Pluribus, and WoT with the fandom ticky boxes, "You're welcome to request specific pairings, characters, or scenes from those three fandoms. I am also willing to do icons from the following comics: Absolute Wonder Woman, Thompson's Birds of Prey, Wilson's Poison Ivy, Galaxy The Prettiest Star, Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, Far Sector, Abbott, Ahmed's Exiles." Should maybe have specified a number, but I figured I'd wait and see the bid amount to decide.
+ The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction.
On the surface, this feels like it should be a good thing: More fic readers means more people in fandom, right? Instead, I read post after post talking about how distant writers felt from these newer readersāhow impersonal and lonely the act of fannish creation has become. Anecdotes where readers gush about a fic on Discord, but make zero attempts to connect with the author. Screenshots of fic titles or passages with no URLsāand captions like, āI wish I could tell the person who wrote this how incredible it is.ā
+ To Fandom, With Love. (previously at Bitch Magazine, published 2020, now re-uploaded)
I also made friends through fanficāactual, honest-to-goodness close friends. Comments on each othersā fics turned into email correspondences that began with exchanging headcanons about our favorite characters, and expanded into mutual care and supportāoften around issues weād first broached anonymously in our respective works.
+ Neil Young trashes Amazon, gives his complete musical catalog to Greenland for free.
āAmazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,ā he wrote. āThe presidentās international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon. There are many ways to avoid Amazon and support individual Americans and American companies that supply the same products. I have done that with my music and people who are looking can find it in a lot of other places."
+ There is no such thing as other peopleās children.
+ Talking Greatness to Death. On Ryan Coogler's sins and the kinds of performances that attract vampires.
+ Does anybody want me to do a lil tarot draw for them? I can do A World Without Shrimp (feeling as though something is missing from your life, this spread can help you identify what you're craving), or Five By Five (general idea of how things are going).
+ Dropkick Murphy's performing Citizen I.C.E. live in Paris. Enjoy!
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A rough pencil and watercolor of the confrontation that I saw ages ago between an old woman with her walker and a truck at an intersection. I made it bit political - to get across a statement. Two actually. It's not perfect, kind of rough.
( watercolor and pencil )
Bruce Springsteen has released a new single on the Minneapolis protests.
Streets of Minneapolis
And Lady Gaga released a new cover of Won't You Be My Neighbor
And they've been singing and chanting Holiday by Green Day - and Green Day performed American Idiot and Holiday for Minnesota. [I love Green Day].
A rough pencil and watercolor of the confrontation that I saw ages ago between an old woman with her walker and a truck at an intersection. I made it bit political - to get across a statement. Two actually. It's not perfect, kind of rough.
( watercolor and pencil )
Bruce Springsteen has released a new single on the Minneapolis protests.
Streets of Minneapolis
And Lady Gaga released a new cover of Won't You Be My Neighbor
And they've been singing and chanting Holiday by Green Day - and Green Day performed American Idiot and Holiday for Minnesota. [I love Green Day].
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jellyfishloverThis is a card for genprompt_bingo. Just cross-posting this over here so I don't lose it. I'll be linking to fills here too (eventually)!
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bluapapilioUsed my manga TBR boardgame.
I finished 5/6 on my last challenge, a couple were ehh but a couple were great too. Honestly since I'm sick reading manga is the easiest thing besides gaming for me to do right now.
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Gon
Skill: Choose own prompt once
Roll #1:
A 7, okay, getting the trap tile out of the way;; ...Or not. Another 7, and what's funny it was the opposite dice this team (1-6 vs 6-1). Okay here we go, a ten and the prompt is reincarnation. D.Gray-Man.
Roll #2:
A 6, prompt: reverse harem. Men of the Harem.
Roll #3:
An 8, prompt: mystery element. I guesss I should continue Are You Alice?.
Roll #4:
Another 8, using my skill to choose. Picked 'taboo', Ai no DNA.
Roll #5:
A 5, prompt: featuring a group of friends. Oh yay, Mairimashita! Iruma-kun!
Roll #6:
An 8 and the end. The physical BL manga this time is Picnic (Yamada Yugi). I'm going ahead and reading the prequel too to knock them both out.
Most looking forward to: Mairimashita! Iruma-kun
Least looking forward to: Picnic
~Manga TBR List~
[Action/Fantasy] D.Gray-Man
[Fantasy/Harem] Men of the Harem
[Mystery/Fantasy] Are You Alice?
[BL] Ai no DNA
[Fantasy/School Life] Mairimashita! Iruma-kun
[BL/Romance] Boku ni Datte Iibun ga Aru āļø & Picnic
x 1 josei, x3 shounen, x3 BL
I finished 5/6 on my last challenge, a couple were ehh but a couple were great too. Honestly since I'm sick reading manga is the easiest thing besides gaming for me to do right now.
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Gon
Skill: Choose own prompt once
Roll #1:
A 7, okay, getting the trap tile out of the way;; ...Or not. Another 7, and what's funny it was the opposite dice this team (1-6 vs 6-1). Okay here we go, a ten and the prompt is reincarnation. D.Gray-Man.
Roll #2:
A 6, prompt: reverse harem. Men of the Harem.
Roll #3:
An 8, prompt: mystery element. I guesss I should continue Are You Alice?.
Roll #4:
Another 8, using my skill to choose. Picked 'taboo', Ai no DNA.
Roll #5:
A 5, prompt: featuring a group of friends. Oh yay, Mairimashita! Iruma-kun!
Roll #6:
An 8 and the end. The physical BL manga this time is Picnic (Yamada Yugi). I'm going ahead and reading the prequel too to knock them both out.
Most looking forward to: Mairimashita! Iruma-kun
Least looking forward to: Picnic
~Manga TBR List~
[Action/Fantasy] D.Gray-Man
[Fantasy/Harem] Men of the Harem
[Mystery/Fantasy] Are You Alice?
[BL] Ai no DNA
[Fantasy/School Life] Mairimashita! Iruma-kun
[BL/Romance] Boku ni Datte Iibun ga Aru āļø & Picnic
x 1 josei, x3 shounen, x3 BL
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Challenge 9: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)OH HEY I LIKE TALKING ABOUT THESE :D I only have a few that I can think of off the top of my head, but here they are in a coherent list!
My top faves:
ā¤ Strangers to Lovers
ā¤ Friends to Lovers
ā¤ Childhood Friends to Lovers
ā¤ Friends with Benefits to Lovers
ā¤ Coworkers to Lovers
ā¤ Rivals to Lovers
ā³ā³ "Trishelle we're starting to see a 'To Lovers' pattern here--" SHHH GO BACK TO THE LIST
ā¤ Found Family
ā¤ Mutual Pining (also "Mutual Pining but Both Parties are Oblivious" xD)
ā¤ Fluff
ā¤ Mystery/Thriller AU
ā¤ Angst (in moderation b/c DEAR GOD I'll read some shit and make myself sad xD)
ā¤ Fluff
ā¤ Hurt/Comfort
ā¤ PWP/PWOP (SHH THE CHURCH MUSTNT KNOW I YEARN š«£)
ā¤ Soulmates AU
ā³ā³ "I will find you in every universe"/"I will weave the threads of fate until they spell our names"
ā³ā³ "I will die for you"/"I will live for you"
ā¤ Tattoo Artist AU
ā¤ Kissing Scars
ā¤ Alternate forms of intimacy outside of sex
ā¤ Battle Couple
ā¤ Hair Contrast Couple
ā¤ Sick fic (I've been reading these lately as research for one that I'm writing and AGHHHHH MY HEART)
ā¤ Fix-it fic (especially in relation to FF16 b/c MANNNNNNNN they were supposed to get a much happier ending than what they got ; o;)
ā¤ YES I'm one of those Song Fic enjoyers. NO I am not accepting criticism at this time (or EVER, really. I WILL write fics based on SZA and Sleep Token songs AND YOU WILL LIKE IT >:) xD)
ā¤ Does "demon falls in love with a priest/vice versa" count? xD
bluapapilio
Read the BL 30,000 Yen Boyfriend, rated it 6/10. 
Read the first volume of the classic BL Haru o Daiteita! Read the BL Amai Jouken and rated it 6/10. (Re) read the BL NightS, kept the rating at 8/10! Read chapter 1 of volume 2 of Basara.For The S-Classes that I Raised, I've decided to go forward with the novel instead. I might do what I'm doing with Trash of the Count's Family and read them both at the same time, once I catch up anyway.
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yarning
no yarn group Sunday due to the ice storm, such as it was. We didn't get as much freezing rain as forecast, but we got enough to make it unsafe to drive here, where we utterly lack the infrastructure for it. I've been making more hats for the children's shelter. A ridic number of hats. Like, twenty.
healthcrap
after the shingles shot, I didn't feel right until *Sunday*. Thanks for the sympathetic words on my last post. (We'll do it all again for shot #2 in a couple of months.)
#resist
+ https://standwithminnesota.com
+ https://projectreliefme.com (mutual aid in Maine)
+ Jan 30-31: ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE shutdown and protest
+ Feb 17th: #50501 Protest: Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund
+ March 28: No Kings Protest #3
+ There's a drive for knitted or crocheted balaclavas for the Minneapolis protesters, so I'm looking into doing that, except I've used nearly all my appropriate worsted weight yarn that's not earmarked for money-making projects. Not sure what to do. Anybody got a yarn stash they don't need? Or I guess I could go to walmart, which, sadly, is cheaper than Michaels. Or I could order an equivalent $ number of balaclavas from amazon and have them sent there. Hmm.
I hope you're all doing well & keeping up your spirit in spite of all the horrors. Much love! <333
yarning
no yarn group Sunday due to the ice storm, such as it was. We didn't get as much freezing rain as forecast, but we got enough to make it unsafe to drive here, where we utterly lack the infrastructure for it. I've been making more hats for the children's shelter. A ridic number of hats. Like, twenty.
healthcrap
after the shingles shot, I didn't feel right until *Sunday*. Thanks for the sympathetic words on my last post. (We'll do it all again for shot #2 in a couple of months.)
#resist
+ https://standwithminnesota.com
+ https://projectreliefme.com (mutual aid in Maine)
+ Jan 30-31: ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE shutdown and protest
+ Feb 17th: #50501 Protest: Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund
+ March 28: No Kings Protest #3
+ There's a drive for knitted or crocheted balaclavas for the Minneapolis protesters, so I'm looking into doing that, except I've used nearly all my appropriate worsted weight yarn that's not earmarked for money-making projects. Not sure what to do. Anybody got a yarn stash they don't need? Or I guess I could go to walmart, which, sadly, is cheaper than Michaels. Or I could order an equivalent $ number of balaclavas from amazon and have them sent there. Hmm.
I hope you're all doing well & keeping up your spirit in spite of all the horrors. Much love! <333
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sinealaWhat I Just Finished Reading
Nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( 1776 #3, Iron Man #1, Sorcerer Supreme #2 )
What I'm Reading Next
IDK. Once again, I need fewer migraines.
Nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( 1776 #3, Iron Man #1, Sorcerer Supreme #2 )
What I'm Reading Next
IDK. Once again, I need fewer migraines.
tinnyAaaand another one! We're on round 19 at celebrity20in20 and I picked Wu Lei again. Surprise. I enjoyed making these, I hope you like 'em.
Teasers:
( 20+7 icons of Wu Lei )
I love comments, and if you have concrit for me, I'm open for that, too. All my icons are free to take and use, credit is appreciated. The list of makers whose textures and brushes I like to use is here in my resource post.
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celebrity20in20 and I picked Wu Lei again. Surprise. I enjoyed making these, I hope you like 'em.Teasers:
( 20+7 icons of Wu Lei )
I love comments, and if you have concrit for me, I'm open for that, too. All my icons are free to take and use, credit is appreciated. The list of makers whose textures and brushes I like to use is here in my resource post.
autobotscoutriella
Challenge #13: TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesnāt need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe itās even one that youāve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.
This one took me a while - not because I couldn't think of a community, but because I had too many in mind! I bounce around a lot across Tumblr, Discord, and Dreamwidth, because there's fun stuff for my fandoms scattered everywhere and I've never been good at consolidating it all to one single site. And then, as I was making my list, it occurred to me that half my usual hangouts are anonymous, and at that point I started wondering, well, do anonymous kink memes count as fannish community?
I think they do, actually! They've kind of fallen out of favor these days (partly because a lot of the newer sites fandom has migrated to don't really have support for fully anonymous spaces), but I got my start in fandom lurking on anonymous Livejournal kink memes. It's a fun low-pressure way to start writing fic for a new fandom, because hey, if the fic doesn't turn out good, you can just move on and get better at writing it! So, here's a shout-out to
pw_kink_meme, for being lovely and welcoming when I unexpectedly got into a new-to-me fandom after years of being only into Transformers where I knew how everything worked. (And also for being old enough to drive and almost old enough to drink in the US, which is very cool.) If you're into Ace Attorney, come check it out - there's still new prompts and fills coming in!(And I am absolutely not using this as motivation to finally finish the one I've been working on for weeks, shh, if a suspiciously Riella's-interests-relevant fill pops up over there tonight it definitely wasn't me. Plausible Deniability.)
seleneheartWho was going to tell me that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie have an audio play about two feuding fae princes?
Honestly, "Fae Prince" is exactly the energy the two of them give off, separately or together.
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Honestly, "Fae Prince" is exactly the energy the two of them give off, separately or together.
Blurb:
Ember & Ice follows two fae princes, Dane and Finn, from rival kingdoms, Solari and Lunare. It becomes clear that the two are more than just adversaries, though, as listeners become āan intimate observer to every moment of tension, longing, and intimacy between Dane and Finn.ā
Set in a richly imagined fantasy world shaped by history, duty, and forbidden desire, Ember & Ice follows Dane and Finn, two fae princes from the rival Solari and Lunare kingdoms. At its core, Ember & Ice is a story about choosing love in defiance of expectation.ā
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lirazelBecause I never brought it over here! Here's the Yuletide fic I wrote!!!
Can you believe it took me 39 years of life to write The Blue Castle fic? I'm very proud of this--it's a love letter to the book and the characters, and I'm so glad that Yuletide gave me the nudge to write it. Yuletide!!!!
of wild honey (7940 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling, Cecilia "Cissy" Gay, Abel Gay
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Yuletide 2025, 5 Things
Summary:
Can you believe it took me 39 years of life to write The Blue Castle fic? I'm very proud of this--it's a love letter to the book and the characters, and I'm so glad that Yuletide gave me the nudge to write it. Yuletide!!!!
of wild honey (7940 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling, Cecilia "Cissy" Gay, Abel Gay
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Yuletide 2025, 5 Things
Summary:
Abel held up his hands, helpless. “She’s sitting in my house holding Cissy’s hand this very minute! She gave me her valise before I left the house, and I thought sure she’d send an errand boy to fetch it back tomorrow. But no, not an hour ago she walked right up to my door, determined as you please, and I do believe she intends to stay despite how the whole damned ruck of Stirlings must be throwing a tantrum as we speak. The spunk of the girl! The ways of Providence are strange.”
Life was full of surprises, but in Barney’s experience, people generally weren’t. Oh, people had surprised him before, in his callow youth, but that was because he hadn’t understood who they really were. Once you got down to someone’s true character, you could see that they’d been who they were all along. People mostly kept doing just what they’d been doing their whole lives, what they’d been brought up to do. Of course he’d met a handful of those who bucked tradition and struck out on their own, but he hadn’t expected to find one in Deerwood.
“Is it Providence?” he asked. “That seems as clear a demonstration of free will as anything I’ve ever heard.”
Five times Valancy Stirling surprises Barney Snaith.
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fardell24At the same time, Norman Osborn was being released from the hospital.
Fields met him as he entered the Lobby.
āThere you are, Fields,ā he said.
āYou were given a clean bill of health?ā
āNot exactly, but more than healthy enough to no longer need observation.ā
āI see,ā Fields said quietly.
They were silent until they got in the car. āHome first,ā Norman said to the driver. He then turned back to Fields. āWhat is the reaction to the delivery so far.ā
āSubdued. There hasnāt been much online chatter yet.ā
āThatās to be expected, but with the clothes out, Operation rooftop can proceed.ā
āBut there was also a leak about the Alchemax operation,ā Fields added.
Osborn gauged Fields. āDid she also leak additional information, or not?ā he wondered. āOf course, how else to draw out the vigilantes for a confrontation?ā
Fields thought about that. āOf course. Heās expecting both SpiderGirl and the fourth vigilante to show up and maybe have that long delayed confrontation.ā
Stacy left the Mall after Quinn had dashed off saying that she would talk to Daria about the clothes. āSheās dashing off a lot lately.ā But that had been the case since before the Fashion Club had dissolved. She headed home, as she wanted to get a start on something Mr. DeMartino had assigned that day.
SpiderGirl got home after patrolling the area between the Mall and her neighborhood and entered the basement through the backyard hatch. She then went into the hidden room and took off her mask as she glanced at the clutter of the maps of Lawndale on the wall. She grabbed a post it and wrote Delivery of Costume Knock-offs to Cashmans before sticking it on the Mall on one of the maps.
āBut, what about other stores in town?ā she wondered. āLike, Angieās motherās boutique?ā
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Fields met him as he entered the Lobby.
āThere you are, Fields,ā he said.
āYou were given a clean bill of health?ā
āNot exactly, but more than healthy enough to no longer need observation.ā
āI see,ā Fields said quietly.
They were silent until they got in the car. āHome first,ā Norman said to the driver. He then turned back to Fields. āWhat is the reaction to the delivery so far.ā
āSubdued. There hasnāt been much online chatter yet.ā
āThatās to be expected, but with the clothes out, Operation rooftop can proceed.ā
āBut there was also a leak about the Alchemax operation,ā Fields added.
Osborn gauged Fields. āDid she also leak additional information, or not?ā he wondered. āOf course, how else to draw out the vigilantes for a confrontation?ā
Fields thought about that. āOf course. Heās expecting both SpiderGirl and the fourth vigilante to show up and maybe have that long delayed confrontation.ā
Stacy left the Mall after Quinn had dashed off saying that she would talk to Daria about the clothes. āSheās dashing off a lot lately.ā But that had been the case since before the Fashion Club had dissolved. She headed home, as she wanted to get a start on something Mr. DeMartino had assigned that day.
SpiderGirl got home after patrolling the area between the Mall and her neighborhood and entered the basement through the backyard hatch. She then went into the hidden room and took off her mask as she glanced at the clutter of the maps of Lawndale on the wall. She grabbed a post it and wrote Delivery of Costume Knock-offs to Cashmans before sticking it on the Mall on one of the maps.
āBut, what about other stores in town?ā she wondered. āLike, Angieās motherās boutique?ā
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