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Support on Patreon! Hello y'all. My name is Arcturus, but you may call me Arc or Archie. I write the stories that make the folks fall like dominos. I write a bit. My fic can be found here. This blog routinely features adult content and the content I create is exclusively intended for an adult audience. Antis and fancops are the poison in the fandom well and are not welcome here.

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Masterpost Of Arc Fic

/taps all this into a calculator. So I have over 1,311,254 1,365,918 words of fic. I've written a lot of things, and I sometimes get asked what folks should try reading. I'm going to try to do a fast pitch on all of my major stories.

Now, it's at this point a running gag with my readers that a good chunk of them read my stuff without knowing the canon, to the point I make a conscious effort to structure many of my fics in a way that's friendly to reading them like original novels. But that's not the case for all of them. So I will mark the ones that are most friendly to people who don't know the canon:

✔️ Totally accessible to people who don't know the canon!
⚠️ Could be accessible to people who don't know the canon, but you'll need to be good at inferring from context clues or be willing to google one or two things!
🛑 Canon Lock-Out. This fic is either set in the canon material or relies on a lot of knowledge of the canon!

Now for my own recommendation scale.

🌟 I AM EXTREMELY PROUD OF THIS STORY AND YOU SHOULD READ IT. I put a lot of work in and I think it holds up very well!
⭐ I think this is a pretty damn good fic, though maybe not one of my Best of The Best. Read these second unless the summary calls to you.
🐙 This is a Weird Story! Some of my stories are unabashedly very strange and this is one of them!

Okay lets get started. I'm ordering this by word count and separating by fandoms.

#my fic #homestuck #the magnus archives #and a few others #this is a HUGE post

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One: I was right, the Silksong delay was bc the Switch 2 delay, I'm a genius.

Two: ooooooooooouf. 450$ is not good. They just could not make the math work out on that one. Yikes.

Home from work so yeah so I would bet every dollar in my bank accnt that Nintendo has trying to make the math work for the Switch 2 to be 399$ because its such an enormous part of their brand to be the family-friendly alternative to the other consoles. But with the supply chain issues and chip shortages and now the fucking tariffs? jfc for 450$ you can almost buy a fucking PS5 and that was the JOKE, that the PS5 is so expensive, who can afford it in this economy

when the tariff fuckery dies down, they are gonna slash that price and make a big deal out of it. it's very worth riding out the surprisingly robust end of the Switch OG life-cycle and picking up the Switch 2 later.

but what do i know, I'm a PC gamer.

Yeah confirmed, if you live in Japan you can get a Japan only S2 for just 350$.

Wild fucking world we live in to be able to say Trump made the Nintendo Switch 2 more expensive.

right now people are claiming that on the japanese one you won't be able to use multilingual settings within individual software (so like, if a game comes out multilingual on release you're still trapped in japanese mode) and can only link regional japanese accounts

this SUCKS because as a multilingual person some games are better or more useful in other languages! i can go either j/e on stuff like persona, final fantasy, or zelda but shadowrun and disco elysium are WAY better in english. (and right now i'm playing pokemon in spanish, for reasons

(on my switch lite i have profiles for both my japanese and usamerican store accounts so that i have access to games from both)

my computer is not robust enough to game on so i'm basically committed to staying switch lite until they bring out some platform exclusive that i cannot bear the thought of missing out on

oh okay. i knew the jpn only one was region locked but... wait that CANNOT be right, like even in-game you can't change language?

i know nintendo is THE anti-consumer devil but jesus fuck. esp bc I know they're also selling the world-region switch 2 in japan but it's like 480$, so it's even fucking more astronomical.

not saying i don't believe you but i cannot believe even nintendo would pull something like that. that almost feels like it shouldn't be legal but. 😬😬😬😬😬

it's wild that the switch 2 is really obvsly a reaction to the steam deck but like if valve was luring people in with a lot of carrots, nintendo is trying to hit folks with sticks to get them into the ecosystem.

#like i know a handful of games are gonna get free performance upgrades #but like the audacity of charging 450 and then also charging for per game upgrades #DOES IT NOT SEEM LIKE A FUCKING OBVIOUS WAY TO SOFTEN THE MASSIVE SPIKE IN EXPECTED PRICE #TO MAKE THOSE UPGRADES FREE #or at least free to switch online ppl?#jfc i do not understand nintendo #but i also acknowledge that i am not their demographic lmao

Reblogged robinade

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

technecat-scratchings

Google Workspace apps (Docs, Sheets, etc.) should be off by default, but it's always worth double checking if it's something that bothers you!

#sighs #(gets to work)

I need to accept that when I am Stressed Out, I organize files.

Like, I just reinstalled Playnite and I'm doing SO MUCH organization and metadata wrangling and shit.

Why am I like thiiiiis.

Reblogged treeprince

a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.

i have been looking for this picture for YEARS and it’s finally back on my dash….wow

#i love this pic so much #also i think i followed this person when they were super into bioware games

Reblogged bloodsbane

iive been so obsessed with this video for days

#this is like three different wtnv references

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One: I was right, the Silksong delay was bc the Switch 2 delay, I'm a genius.

Two: ooooooooooouf. 450$ is not good. They just could not make the math work out on that one. Yikes.

Home from work so yeah so I would bet every dollar in my bank accnt that Nintendo has trying to make the math work for the Switch 2 to be 399$ because its such an enormous part of their brand to be the family-friendly alternative to the other consoles. But with the supply chain issues and chip shortages and now the fucking tariffs? jfc for 450$ you can almost buy a fucking PS5 and that was the JOKE, that the PS5 is so expensive, who can afford it in this economy

when the tariff fuckery dies down, they are gonna slash that price and make a big deal out of it. it's very worth riding out the surprisingly robust end of the Switch OG life-cycle and picking up the Switch 2 later.

but what do i know, I'm a PC gamer.

Yeah confirmed, if you live in Japan you can get a Japan only S2 for just 350$.

Wild fucking world we live in to be able to say Trump made the Nintendo Switch 2 more expensive.

Reblogged ribeckulous

pistachiozombie

Went super out of my comfort zone to draw some different fan art~ This show killed me the three times I've watched it and 100 percent inspired me to be a kinder and happier person.

#ted lasso #omg this is so adorable and emotive

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vexedandperplexed-deactivated20

utterly obsessed with these sports lads <3

#THE LAST TRIO OF IMAGES I'M WHEEZING #ted lasso #fucking canon scented

i'm SORRY are you telling me that nintendo is going to CHARGE MONEY for the upgraded performance/graphics from S1 to S2?

like. imagine if i had to pay money to each game i played if i got a better PC. jfc.

icecreamvi asked:

you know nintendo on a warpath if they got a console exclusive from fromsoft

i mean they added MOUSE SUPPORT to the switch 2

they are not looking at sony/microsoft, they are looking at the steam desk. that's their competition.

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One: I was right, the Silksong delay was bc the Switch 2 delay, I'm a genius.

Two: ooooooooooouf. 450$ is not good. They just could not make the math work out on that one. Yikes.

Home from work so yeah so I would bet every dollar in my bank accnt that Nintendo has trying to make the math work for the Switch 2 to be 399$ because its such an enormous part of their brand to be the family-friendly alternative to the other consoles. But with the supply chain issues and chip shortages and now the fucking tariffs? jfc for 450$ you can almost buy a fucking PS5 and that was the JOKE, that the PS5 is so expensive, who can afford it in this economy

when the tariff fuckery dies down, they are gonna slash that price and make a big deal out of it. it's very worth riding out the surprisingly robust end of the Switch OG life-cycle and picking up the Switch 2 later.

but what do i know, I'm a PC gamer.

One: I was right, the Silksong delay was bc the Switch 2 delay, I'm a genius.

Two: ooooooooooouf. 450$ is not good. They just could not make the math work out on that one. Yikes.

Reblogged ethanhuntfemmefatale

Man...

#may his memory be a blessing #fuck he played the first gay character i saw in a film #that felt compassionate and funny with us instead of against us

so my boss (the guy who's probably the best straight dude i've ever met) called me into a closed door meeting and told me today:

"I was told to have a meeting with you today and to unapologetically tell you your hair is still not within dress code. i'm not going to do that because this entire thing is embarrassing. i'm so, so sorry. also if this is the thing that makes you walk, I'll grab my bag and walk out of here with you."

and we had a long chat and established

one: he's also looking for another job and if he gets one before I do, he's going to try to bring me along.

two: his wife, who works for another company in a similar field, wants my resume to try to pass it on to her bosses.

so my casual job hunting has some pep in its step.

truly wild fucking day. i want my life to be less interesting so bad. i just want to do my job and write fic and watch movies with my friends, man, it don't gotta be this dramatic.

... jfc he would have walked out of there with me. that's so much. i'm honored to have his friendship. really good dude.

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FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

HE LITERALLY ANALYZES MY FAVORITE TRANSITION IM THE MOVIE IN THE INTRO, THE DOLLY SHOT OF ROYALTON AS OT MOVES TO THE RACE I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THAT SHOT FOR A FUCKIJG DECADE

Omg Patrick Willems you get it

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

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