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Currently reading / currently doing

Aside from reading the BL Palace’s Fire Anthology and 我靠种田当上校长 (I became a principal by farming), this week I've been re-reading Under Dragon Wings. A reader's comment prompted me to check back at the work and then I just ended up re-reading it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Re-reading it, I can now more-clearly see the weak points (and the strong points) in the story, more so than when I re-read my shorter old stories O_O

Aside from that, I've been working on the BL list website (😅) and I have been trying to write.

I also tried to make Ren Xiyang's office in MakeRoom:

The two chairs at the front of the desk are reserved for Ren Xiyang and Rian ^_^

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Personality hire

Working Cats

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i just think they're neat

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Tiny glade is finally here ~

I’ve been waiting for the release i had a lot of fun with the demo >.<

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a village with no name

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I don't care about Dungeon Meshi otherwise but "Tallmen" is SUCH an elegant solution to placing humans in a fantasy setting that it's still blowing my mind. Just the term itself is enough to instantly recontextualize humans. They're no longer the default race. They're those big goobers with long legs, striding about all the time. I can so easily envision much more interesting relationships between humans and non-humans because of it. Like perhaps "tallmen" are stereotyped as shepherds by other races because they can watch over their flocks better, or as vagabonds because they are better suited to long travel on foot. And of course, they don't *literally* have to be taller than everybody else, they were just the tallest around whenever the label became the norm, or something like that. I just feel like it's so much better than what I've seen in settings like D&D that go "and humans are the... adaptable, generalist people :)!"

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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misophonia moodboard for when The Sounds

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If you put chewing/eating sounds in an ad that can't be skipped I think everyone with misophonia should be legally allowed to kill you

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Oh so that’s why I stay awake until I basically pass out.

That and the occasional nightly existential crisis.

And reading. A lot of reading.

Apropos staying awake for too long… I’ll go to bed now. Good night! 😴

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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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Keep watch

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give me more stories with a trans guy as the main character. give me a action movie where the hero has to take his shirt off bc he got hurt and we see his top surgery scars right in front of us. give me a sitcom where the trans guy talks openly about his period without him being laughed at. give me a drama where the main guy is a father and the story shows how his kid grew up while his dad went through hrt and turned from being a mom to a dad, without it implying that the trans dad is less a man bc he gave birth. give me a romcom where the main love interest is a trans guy. give me horror where the main guy has to face his abusive past from transphobic family members by fighting monsters, and winning through blood and sweat. give me a happy old trans man who lived through decades and survived despite the many tragedies. give me a young nervous trans man who just started to explore his identity and get support from older queer folk. give me trans men from different time period and countries and how their identity would be shaped there. give me more trans men. give them a happy ending.

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19th century fashion plates, designs, etc.

(with late 18th and early 20th century plates)

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