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Stephen King character internal monologues: All that running and running and no one can get you in the end, Jackie-boy, can they? Except those goddamn coyotes will chase you up a tree and goawaygoawaygoaway tear your legs off. And the lady with the big tits won’t be able to save you because the coyotes got you and your leg is already spurting all that blood. Ayuh.

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Frederick Simpson Coburn (1871–1960) - “Death in the Pear Tree”

pastel for ‘The Legend of Misery’ 1914

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Cyril Power - The Escalator (1930)

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Eli McMullen - Home, 2020

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how it feels to stop tossing and turning and get up to piss

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not to make this about me but i really need you to have an awesome summer with me

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Cherry-picking

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clandestine laboratory of perception

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"For Only Girl (In the World), at the time we were recording that, I was living in this very shitty small town in the South, in the United States, and really fucking hated it. The only kind of good thing about this town was there was a very small lesbian bar, that was open just on Saturdays I think, and they always had a good dance night, and I could walk there basically so I could get really fucking drunk and walk home and not worry about it, so I would go there a whole lot, and then one night I went there and the dance floor was totally empty, there were a lot of people there but no one was dancing, and then the DJ put that song on, and then like all the really super intense butch dykes were on the dance floor all dancing together to that song, and it was the lyrics are “you make me feel like I’m the only girl in the world,” and it was just all of the things: the shitty little town, in the shitty part of the United States, and then this sort of rarified very small lesbian bar, and like butch dykes are a very small specific segment of the queer world with a very specific history, and then this pop song, I’m sure every Rihanna song is like 50 people write it, it’s a song by committee essentially, and even though something that was somewhat sanitized was able to create a very real emotional movement for this marginalized group of people in a marginalized part of the United States, it was very very beautiful to me and it made me hear that song in a totally different way. So, it was as much about wanting to pay tribute to that moment, and to what music can be generally, as much as it was to that song specifically."

Jamie Stewart, interview with WARP Magazine 2023 (https://youtu.be/QxOXVUV1610 42:00)

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I think maybe if we gave this a name we could resolve a lot of minor online conflict like it’s so much simpler to just go ohhh you are doing an imagine set in topbottomverseworld vs arguing about how sex works in reality

top/bottom discourse is so funny because it is just omegaverse mini version it’s like…..in a world…..where you can only do one thing sexually and it corresponds to your other traits….

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top/bottom discourse is so funny because it is just omegaverse mini version it’s like…..in a world…..where you can only do one thing sexually and it corresponds to your other traits….

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If you think of any worthwhile novel—its intersecting arcs, its intertwined themes and metaphors—no one is clever enough to do it. When you have crammed your head with data, you have to take your hands off and see what shapes the story forms. You must trust the process, and that can be difficult, because you have to quell anxiety; the task is to get out of your own way. I think this is true for all worthwhile fiction, not just historical fiction. At the centre of your work is an act of faith in the novel form. You employ what Keats called "negative capability"—you must endure doubt and follow paths without signposts.

—Hilary Mantel, in an interview with The Guardian

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Important photo of PJ Harvey, shot by Stefan De Batselier (ca. 1993)