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also pls tag the first game you remember playing

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okay once and for all

no nuance, no "oh but im allergic/its something different/whatever the fuck" either pick a side or dont answer

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I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

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something i’ve kind of noticed with the surfacing of this whole “the best smut is a character study” kind of mindset is the pipeline to a borderline “when i write porn i do it intellectually unlike some of you SICKOS” type of mindset and i just wanted to remind you especially in our current political atmosphere that writing porn doesn’t have to be intellectual to have value. it can be just horny. thanks

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One of the major dividing lines of our age is between those who think it's worthwhile to cooperate and work with other people, accepting their flaws and limitations, to build something larger than ourselves, and those who think everything is fundamentally hopeless and that other people are corrupt, degenerate, and suspect. And the latter is not conducive to having any kind of culture at all.

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angels clearing out the sexual attraction part of asexual brains: hey what should we do with this empty space

angel in the sex dungeon who's got a backed up inventory of weirdass kinks: I have an idea,

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you have to release yourself from the pressure of writing Blorbo from Your Shows in your fics because that's literally impossible. instead you are writing Your Portrayal of Blorbo. everyone has different interpretations and headcanons and focuses on different things when writing characters and that's beautiful.

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i want all my friends and followers and mutuals and acquaintances to know from the bottom of my heart: i don’t respond to your messages because i’m an insane person, i am insane medieval hermit software running inappropriately on modern queer hardware and social media scares me. it is not your fault

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kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

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People on twitter have been saying this website is extremely white and tbh its making me very curious what the demographics of this site are (of my own reach anyway) so

DISCLAIMER: Race is a non scientific concept with no exact definitions. It is a social construct primarily characterized by how society treats you and thus this is an imperfect poll. If you feel none of the options here reflect you and your experience I implore you to reblog this with your experience as I am curious about that and want to hear about it.

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while on the topic of romanticisation/fetishisation of abuse and its depictions in art and the cultural landscape at large, i do think it's worth mentioning that victimhood being often used as this metric of validity by way of experience - essentially "you must be This traumatised to ride" - and the resulting push for tighter restrictions on who is allowed to create and interact with these depictions of abusive behaviour ultimately only serves to deny victims the language with which to articulate their experiences and hand more power to those who inflict the abuse. you are never not going to get art that explores abuse that doesn’t resonate with you; that makes you feel uncomfortable and perhaps even offended, unless you eliminate it entirely, and it is arrogance to believe that you will always be able to tell the difference between art that uncritically "fetishises" abuse and that which depicts a victim's lived experiences, as well as a potentially invasive demand for relitigation of the trauma someone endured in order to justify their work. that's why we have critical theory and discourse - to discuss the relative merits and failures of any work of art, and communicate our subjective experiences of it with one another. also, while it very much isn't praxis, i honestly could not give less of a shit if someone's introduction to the language that enabled them to articulate their experiences, and/or understand and communicate with me about mine, was a result of their involvement in like. fucking voltron paladin shipping discourse or black butler yaoi.

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How it feels to find a fanfic where your favorite character is going through literally the worst horrors you can imagine

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I wish everyone who was ever into knock down drag out fandom fights would direct all that energy towards their city council, I feel like that would transform society overnight.

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do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

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you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?