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TO MY BLACK QUEER AND TRANS FOLK!

Since it's Pride AND Juneteenth is coming up: Mutual aid call! Feel free to reblog or comment on this post with any fundraising needs you may have this month 🙏🏾 If you're a creator and you have commissions in exchange as well, make sure to note that!

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I am also waiting for the Starving Saints! I've also read & enjoyed Last To Leave The Room, which has some toxic Yuri in it (not as much as The Luminous Dead, though)

have you read caitlin starling’s books? great toxic yuri

Unfortunately so far I have only read The Luminous Dead, but I loved the toxic Yuri in that one. I also am currently waiting on my library copy of The Starving Saints, which I've heard good things about! And I've heard Yellow Jessamine is supposed to be good and I'm hoping to also grab a copy from my library one of these days. Is more of her work toxic yuri? 👀

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i loveeeeeee nonlinear storytelling. show me where we are. now show me how we got here. the end before the beginning. show me how it was inevitable or how many chances we had to change things(nothing was ever going to change). let's meet in the middle as all the puzzle pieces slide into place hell yeah that's the good shit.

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CANNOT stop thinking about this tweet.

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if u are ever stuck in a story u need to remembr that a piece of paper is quite generously proportioned in the x and y directions. so if you tryto escape a story by living it youll keep going and going a long time and never make it out. but in the z direction it is tightly limkted. so you simply need to stack stories on stories on stories until the page bursts and you r free. scheherazade knew this

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Getting married has been something I’ve always wanted and simultaneously knew I would never have. I’m not the easiest person to deal with. I’m particular as shit, ornery and I like my space, my independence, my solitude. But at the same time- well. Everyone wants to love. To know and say they have a family that loves them. And my birth family might’ve said they loved me. They certainly loved their daughter. 

It turned out they didn’t love how she insisted she was their son. 

You know how that kind of thing goes. It really doesn’t have too much to do with this story except giving me a complex about belonging to a family that wanted me for myself.

When I saw the ad on Craigslist, I was looking for used furniture. Scrolled too fast, accidentally opened up domestic gigs. The first listing caught my eye.

“Wanted: Compassionate man to marry our recently deceased daughter.”

The initial click was just out of morbid interest.

It read, simply enough, “Our daughter wanted to be married and we want to keep our promise to her that she would be. She has passed away, and we are seeking a kind and compassionate man to engage in a quiet, non-legally binding ceremony and become our in-law. 

“This is not a joke and we are in bereavement. Please keep this in mind when considering your reply.”

It got taken down within the next five minutes, either by the family or moderation, but I’d already texted the number provided.

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when you are stuck on a plot thing I always recommend going back and looking at character motivations. why are they doing this? what do they want? why can't they get it? what is preventing the easy option? why are they taking this specific plot path?

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writing terrible things in the google doc but shaking my head so the characters know i disagree

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Guy who forgor 🌊

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today i wrote zero words! but i did think about my story twice in passing. that probably counts for something

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I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror

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first base is ripping each other's throats out second base is fucking and then pretending it didn't happen after it's over. third base is falling unconscious from blood loss in the other's arms

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Fran Lebowitz on writing

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i find it so interesting how people act like "critically examining a piece of media" is the opposite of "enjoying that piece of media." rip to you but i actually find it really enjoyable and compelling to dissect and think through the art i engage with