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I love u narrative songs 💖💖💖

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AMBER MORNINGSTAR, 2019 | NAOMI, 2017 | JULIA, 2018

by Cara Romero as part of her First American Girls series

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and I keep you safe from harm, you hold me in your arms

Ships: Thomas Armitage/Thomas Jopson, Thomas Armitage/Solomon Tozer, Thomas Jopson/Edward Little

Words: 25050

Rating: E

“It doesn’t matter anyway,�� says Tommy quickly — anything to make Jopson stop looking at him like that. “Because even if he would let me, I wouldn’t know what to do.”

“You haven’t—?”

Tommy shrugs and takes a bite of his forgotten supper so he doesn’t have to think about his burning cheeks. “Few quick fumbles. Never time for much else.”

Jopson is still looking at him, but thankfully, the pitying expression is finally gone, replaced by something rather thoughtful.

“Would you like me to show you how?”

As the ocean around them slowly freezes over, Tom Jopson and Tommy Armitage find a way to keep themselves warm. If Tommy sometimes suspects that Jopson is using their arrangement to help him forget about someone else, it's not as if he has any room to complain - not when he's doing the same thing.

This fic is a companion piece to you find shelter somewhere in me, I find great comfort in you by @ascendent . They can be read in any order

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WHY DID GOD MAKE ME SEXY INSTEAD OF GOOD AT VIDEO EDITING!!! I AM TORMENTED BY VISIONS OF THE GREATEST FANVIDS YOU'VE EVER SEEN, BUT MY WORTHLESS HANDS CANNOT CRAFT WHAT MY MIND SEES!!!!! AGONY!!!!!!!!

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I know some of you will love this

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ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.

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@socalgal

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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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Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

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they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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Man, the end of this five-year mission is kind of a bummer…

Original from @ featherleafern on twitter

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whenever this ao3 ships convo comes around, many people start saying that there “arent that many well written female characters out there.” what they mean is they have never in their life sought out media that treats women like people and they dont think its worth to do so

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My roommate and I have been doing an improv bit lately where you introduce yourself as Firstname Object, then state your purpose as something entirely unrelated.

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i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live

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PUPARIA (ピューパリア) — 2020 | dir. Shingo Tamagawa