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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

"they're not canon!"

girl idc you wouldn't have survived in the rise of the brave tangled dragon era like come on

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

need to be pressed into the skin of the person I love as we fall asleep together and I think they should be a guy who plays rugby or maybe a guy who used to box but I think they should be a baker as well and I think they should be loud and flamboyant but I also think they should be sturdy and quiet and comfortable in their own skin about it but also I think I want to be in love with a woman who paints and she should be a million things you can’t pin down but really I think none of it matters and I’ll love anyone who loves me because I’m so desperate to be seen and known and I’ve never felt more like a real person than when my face is being held

And fuck, if I was born right it would be simpler for people to love me.

Points to The Doctor for somehow managing to be in every relationship state at the same time. He's single, he's engaged, he's married. He might technically be committing Bigamy because we don't know that his marriage to Elizabeth 1 was annulled. He's a grandfather but also somehow childless. He definitely fucked Houdini. He's the third wheel in his parent in laws marriage. He's in a situationship so powerful it broke the multiverse for a bit. All we need now is at least one canon divorce.

It’s not too late to turn back

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