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So here's the blurb.

If I were in charge of editing it, I would change the first sentence to start with 'The pirate Florian, really an orphan girl named Flora', or 'Flora, disguised as the pirate Florian'. But even if I had to leave that line the same, I think changing the last 'Florian' to 'Flora' - making it 'Both Flora and Evelyn have lived their lives by the rules' - would remove the potential confusion.

Anyway, if you like the sound of this book, it's called The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, and it's a sapphic YA fantasy.

Annoyed because I've kind of soured a book for myself by going in with the wrong expectations.

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Assume you're not planning to go out again later and no visitors are coming.

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Sokka and Zuko get SO much funnier when you remember this is both of their first times talking to another teenage boy in years. Sokka had all the other boys leave the tribe when he was little and Zuko just hasn’t talked to other teenage boys. They wanna be friends but have absolutely no clue how to talk to other teenagers. I love them so much.

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For this hypothetical, assume there are no actual consequences to whatever you choose– i.e. if you choose sex, you won't starve, you just wouldn't be able to eat ever again.

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For the purposes of this poll, we're loosely defining "true love" as a divine, supernatural, or other inexplicable force that draws certain people together within romantic relationships, usually with the connotation that every person has one "perfect match" in the world.

This question is about whether you believe true love exists in general, not specifically for yourself– e.g. someone who's not interested in romance might still believe true love exists for other people.

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In this poll, "personal tags" means a tag someone uses to organize their original posts/posts about their personal life, like #emmatalks, #rambling, etc. "Fandom tags" would include generic tags like #warriorcats, or more specific ones like #emmareadswarriorcats, ship names, etc.

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Princess finds a bedraggled knight wandering just outside the castle walls with no heraldry and a wilted plume (a common sign of emotional neglect in knights) and begs the queen to let her keep him. The queen warns about the dangers of adopting wild knight errants but the princess promises to take good care of him and make sure to keep him away from their domesticated knights until he’s properly adjusted. Queen finally relents once she sees his rusted kit, broken sword, and the saddest brown eyes known to man. Princess claps her hands excitedly and drags him off to the apothecary to make sure he doesn’t have worms.

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There's a weird 3 star movie out there ready to change your life forever

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Gosh i wish teenagers in the 60s had access to tumblr and capcut

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Hold on, let me get this straight...

You KICK Miette?

miette wants to accompany me while i brush my teeth now but she has zoomies in the duration so it's more like

brushes my front teeth. lightly kicks miette so she stops eating the dust bunny. brushes my back teeth. lightly kicks miette so she stops eating the dust bunny. try to brush the other side of my back teeth as miette tries to lick the stale water behind the toilet

try again looking at the mirror to watch miette without gross spit spills. she is now on top of the toilet which has the lid up. i give up and just put her on my shoulders as i hunch over the sink and pray she gets satisfied from this

so today i just didnt open the door and let the horror movie clawing at the door run itself out

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hi excuse me this is OPs mom, yah my daughter, she wanted you to know you reblogged her post before she had a chance to update a hasty technical wording edit that improves the readability flow and cadence by about 3% could you please delete your reblog and then reblog the new version?

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If you came to me and said 'this is a sapphic love story in a fantasy world where one of the girls disguised herself as a boy to become a pirate' I'd be like 'hell yeah'. But unfortunately I misinterpreted the blurb and thought I was getting a transmasc character. So now instead of revelling in the piracy and lesbianism I'm stuck being disappointed that nobody's trans.

Annoyed because I've kind of soured a book for myself by going in with the wrong expectations.

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Annoyed because I've kind of soured a book for myself by going in with the wrong expectations.

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class is in session!

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Beach episodes and episodes where everybody gets really small and goes inside someone's body in a tiny submarine are rightfully classics, but for my money there's nothing quite like the episode where we randomly follow the daily life of the protagonist's distant ancestor who's weirdly similar to them in a mildly anachronistic way.