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i don’t have a brother ma’am adam replied 😭😭😭😭😭 but 😭 blue 😭 saw 😭 his 😭 eyes 😭 dart 😭 to 😭 gansey 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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In Whipping Girl, Julia Serano proposes that we drop "passing" as a term. Instead of passing or not passing, we are either correctly gendered or misgendered. This is to de-artificialize our genders, after all, am I a man trying to pass myself off as a woman? Or am I just a woman who cis people, due to their own prejudice, look at and assume is a man? Of course, it is the latter.

She also proposes to change what some call "passing privilege" to "conditional cissexual privilege." This is to emphasize how while passing can be a privilege in many respects, it is also a conditional privilege that is only given to you if you have the luck, effort, and money necessary to be good enough in the eyes of the cis person. One that can be easily revoked if they clock you or discover your trans status in any way.

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cowboy AU commission for Fey

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honestly adam parrish is the teenager ever. like bro is 17/18, bisexual, hates his family, wasn't alone but was always lonesome, has a weird relationship with intimacy, has 3 jobs that he dislikes but also loves, is in three situationships, is afraid of being known but couldn't stand to lose his friends, yearns and feels bad about it, is bitterly sarcastic if not completely cynical, forms bonds with random adult figures, has far too many skeletons in his closet, stays up late doing homework, created a random side hustle that did far too well, knows people have a crush on him but ignores it for convenience, would rather give over his soul to an ancient forest than talk about his feelings to anyone, and on top of all of that, is just trying his best to pass AP physics. no one has ever topped this level of 'something for everyone' in a character.

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The Emperor's Reason

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ship trope: bf who tans x bf who sunburns

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it’s kinda fucked up that you’re only an age for a year. I didn’t know how to be 23 yet, let me try again

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what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

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they're serving Boyfriends in a way that nobody has ever served Boyfriends before, i fear. this might be my favorite Image ever.

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You have any thoughts on trans ronan

i can with 100% honesty and transparency say that i have actually never had any thoughts about trans ronan. thank you for your inquiry it was a pleasure to be asked for my thoughts on something even though i had none to share

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just did 5 lines of blusey coke 🤗🤗

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Every day I love Blue Sargent just a little bit more like you're so right 17 year old girls should be vain and hypocritical and insane but also care so so deeply and and be so lovable and be full of contradictions and sensible and a bit messy and everything all at once.

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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

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James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

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James: body-snatching is deplorable, immoral, ungodly, and you people are demonic patrons of the devil and I will have nothing to do with you and your ilk!

James' Family: we want you to work for the East India Trading Company

James: Give me a shovel

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I was gonna use my book review side blog for this but fuck it I can't write a coherent post about this. Book rec on main:

I'm begging people to read The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap. For the love of god I need someone to talk to about this book because it's making me insane!

Selling points:

Very fun, morbid dark academia/gothic adventure-mystery-coming of age featuring grave robbing, romance and murder most foul

Historical fiction! Set in 1828 Edinburgh during the Burke & Hare murders. Many of the characters were real people who lived (and died) through those events - with missing information creatively filled in to entwine them with the plot

well researched, to the point where when I was looking for more information on the events presented (as one does when The Neurodivergence ignites) I just kept running into stuff that was already in the book

super immersive

Queer coming-of-age story without being a Queer Coming Of Age™️ story. Very sweet and complicated love story between two morally complex men of science

Very nice balance of tone; for all that it's a very funny book, it doesn't take away from the serious parts.

Characters are likable while retaining their complexity

Nye is peak weird girl rep despite not even being a girl. Nobody is doing it like him. I stand and respect a fellow collector of bugs and bones and dead bits.

James Willoughby is my favorite narrator ever, everyone else can go home <3

doesn't shy away from the gruesomeness of historical medicine or the moral complexities and often pretty awful shortcomings that led to the discoveries made in the period

nevertheless doesn't undersell just how fucking cool science and medicine are and how big of leaps in progress were being made!

Comes with a fun little book club question section <3 idk I just like books that have that

I gotta stress how much this book appeals to the little gothy nerd inside me. I checked it out from the library, read it, screamed, immediately made my baby sibling read it (as I must with all things dark and age-appropriate) and ordered myself a personal copy that WILL be worn out from rereading in a year's time

Seriously the last book that rearranged my brain chemistry like this was Funeral Songs For Dying Girls (<- STILL not over it btw; rereading soon)

Idk man all I can say is this scratched an itch I didn't know I had, and I 100% recommend it if you're interested at all in this period of history, you've ever wondered "what if Victor Frankenstein was gay?", you enjoyed that one episode of Good Omens, and/or listen to Lore podcast.

Content warnings for murder, graphic descriptions of dissection, sexist and homophobic language (briefly for both) and discussions of period-typical homophobic discrimination by the law.