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The OTW is Recruiting for Fanlore and AO3 Tag Wranglers

OTW is recruiting Graphic Designers and Social Media & Outreach volunteers for Fanlore and English and Chinese speakers to be Tag Wranglers at AO3. Help us signal boost or read more: https://otw.news/otw-recruiting-8ebb51

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words of affirmation for those seeking a werewolf girlfriend

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Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

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[ID: you guys have no idea how deep into the lore I've gone]

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It’s actually really important to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it.

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i needed to read this

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coming to the whump community be like welcome to

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I love you beat up books I love you old book smell I love you yellow pages I love you cracked spines I love you secondhand bookshops I love you library books I love you I love you I love you

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Dracula: Now, feel free to write to your loved ones (on this nigh transparent paper) (while I watch). Just to let them know you’re still alive, ha-ha–

Jonathan: Done

Dracula: …What?

Jonathan: Yeah, this is it. Done.

Dracula: One line?

Jonathan ‘Desperate and Tricky Fucker’ Harker: Yeah :)

Flash forward to Whitby, 26th of July

Mina ‘My Fiancé and I’s Joint Habit is Writing Elaborate Descriptions of Literally Everything’ Murray: Oh, this one-line bullshit is definitely not right and Not Him, handwriting or no  

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before i had gotten close with ex-catholics i was under the assumption that "catholic guilt" was mostly about sex, or serious topics.

but i was naïve. it's apparently about every positive experience. enjoying a meal? you're so lucky, children are starving. spending your day off cosy in bed? wow, so selfish, homeless people are freezing to death.

every former or present catholic i've met has a very obvious anxiety disorder and it's so painfully not a coincidence.

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Gentle reminder here that there are elder queers out there. Real elders, people in their 80s and 90s who survived, who are here. You can get there, old age does exist for us.

I know an old lesbian couple who have been married since the moment they legalized it. One woman can hardly walk anymore but she loves Hallmark ornaments, so her wife supports her against her walker during Christmas so she can look at them more easily.

I know a transgender man who started transitioning only 10 years ago at 60, and he's brilliant and funny and brings his grandchildren by to get sweets.

I know an asexual woman who, beamed and told me she absolutely loved not having a husband, and that she "never once regretted not getting married. I never felt that way about anybody! Why force it?" She lives with her parrot and loves salsa dancing.

Our elders exist. So many of us have been wiped out and erased on purpose, but we're here. And that means you can get there. When you're old and grey, when you're retired and done, there will be people who will love you and will care for you.

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Sometimes I like to imagine what kinds of weird youth subcultures existed in the Byzantine empire

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“polyamory isn’t the solution to a love triangle when two of the people hate each other”

I mean yeah not if you don’t understand QUADRANT VACILLATION