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Here is my table for this year. Probably will see if I can rescue some fics (no comments obs) I was planning to do for other tables and migrate them here.

a work posted in the past month	a fic that's under 1k	a work from your first fandom	art on AO3	a work posted in 2024
a work by someone who's given you a kudos or a comment	a work with an impressive/eye catching title	a fic that's over 20k	a work by someone you've come across recently	a work from an event from 2014
comic with no dialogue	a fic not on AO3	FREE SPACE	a work about your first 'ship	a fic with multiple chapters
a work posted in 2014	a work posted in 2025	coloured art	a work that made you sad	a fic you reread often
a work from a Big Bang	a work in a series	a oneshot	a fic with more than 5 additional tags	a work from your newest fandom

Hope. Blood. No Kings.

Our day started far too early, at least as far our aging bodies were concerned, but we had a mission. We headed from our home, our sign in the trunk, picked up our friend Rose, and headed to Evanston's downtown Fountain Square for that No Kings rally. It was lively, peaceful, filled with chants and a happy amount of music. It felt good to be there, and I held our sign up as high as I could (and hoped that I didn't block the view of too many people behind me.) I felt so energized by everyone around me, and by everyone across the country who turned out like we did.

Estimates of attendance at Evanston's rally was around 1,000 and Chicago's was estimated at about 75,000. Add the various other suburbs' rallies to Chicago, and that number jumps to close to 100,000. At the end of the day, it appears that the vast majority of national rallies were peaceful; LA's various police organizations appear to have become violent, as did police in Seattle and Portland, although protestors in the latter appear to have been more violent than they should have been.

And then we got home, and the first thing I saw when I turned on my laptop was the news out of Minnesota. Two Democratic state legislators shot; one killed along with her husband, the other injured along with his wife. And the apparent murderer is, based on what news reports have compiled, a Trump supporter - with a list of other potential targets, including pro-reproductive healthcare activists and Democrats - and probably a Christofascist because of course he would be.

As of 7:36 p.m. Chicago time, the POS hasn't been captured. I hope he chooses neither self-inflicted suicide, nor suicide by cop. I hope he's caught, given the full benefit of American law, and, if a jury of his peers finds him guilty of two murders and two attempted murders, that he spends the rest of his miserable life forgotten behind bars.

But let's not speak of him; let's remember those he killed and injured. And let's look at the number of people across the country who attended "No Kings" rallies - my rough and very incomplete estimates stand at well over half a million; others are estimating several million. The Washington "I Wish I was Kim Jong Un" parade? According to the AP, it appeared to fall very short of the 200,000 predicted earlier. Good.

Now I'm going to finish eating a piece of chocolate, and go hang with the Couch Crew over on Discord.

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you should've seen the other guy

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