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my objection to gay denizens of the internet mocking booktok dark romance spaces is not that they can’t make fun of it for being “overdone” or corny or relying on misogynistic tropes but that the rhetoric they use to do this is often itself deeply misogynistic and literally like 18th century anti rise of the novel shit about how reading naughty stories will corrupt women’s lustful biologically irrational low iq little brains and bring on the destruction of civilization which is also like not “counterculture” or gay radicalism it is literally very ancient misogyny and if you do it idgaf how gay you are because i hate you

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finding out vapes have been lead poisoning people for the past 20 years almost suddenly made a lot of things make sense

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Wave in Backlight - Peter Witt

German , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.

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Ice age woman making the first discovery of kink when she gets ambushed while out hunting by a woman from a neighboring clan who rips down her thick animal hide coat and hold a stone knife to her exposed chest saying in a language that she understands some but not all of the words of that she will skin her like an elk and she without thinking hits her with the 🥺 face

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"Kiosk" is a really good loanword, nice mouthfeel. Thank you, ancient Persia.

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Establish dominance. Bite the monster first.

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Took a lil detour from all the projects I'm working on to indulge my obsession with these two ♡♡

@thedrawingduke 's beautiful Daroga and TC!Erik from @fantome-stein

This probably won't be the last you see of them from me tbh 🫣

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heartbreaking! a pretty solid standalone horror story has gotten a continuation that recontextualizes all of its self-contained events as part of a massive & banal "epic" mythos

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There is a standard media depiction of a "healed" person. Someone who has Gone To Therapy. I've noticed this in a few works recently. We often see them at the end of a story, maybe in a "ten years later" epilogue. They speak in a soft, serene voice. They have Accepted what they cannot change. They have let go of a lot, including most of what we see them actually care about in the story itself. They are Happy, At Peace, in some non-descript way. They bare little resemble to the person we were actually shown. They bare little resemblance to any person. We were shown, as we usually are in stories, an agent, a desirer, someone becoming. Now they have Become. And they look back on all that silly becoming as something childish that they have moved past. Fire, you know, fire is for children who don't know any better. To be Healed is to have your fire rightly extinguished; to not even miss it.

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Anyone else not care if a character is “redeemable” even a little. Either they get better or they die terrible. I am not Anubis, weighing their hearts against a feather. I wanna see what else they can do and how they can grow or change or even get worse. Stop asking me if a character can be forgiven. I don’t care.

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do you guys want to know one of the coolest things ever btw. i'm going to tell you either way i just like to give you the illusion of choice

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The eternal whump struggle of making him injured enough to need care but well enough to fuck nasty.

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love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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