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less "can you handle a mean female character" or more "can you handle a female character that has unpalatable traits to you personally but would shrug off if a male character had them"

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hate when u read books and u have that im in this picture and I don't like it moment

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i love reading a great book…. like why am i gasping and talking to myself rn

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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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to me the murderbot books and the tv show are still two separate things (which is good - the tv show is an adaptation, it doesn't have to recreate the books exactly nor should it) but I'm getting a kick out of how being able to SEE SecUnit's face recontextualizes things.

like. in the books the PresAux crew treats SecUnit like a person because they are A) nice in general and B) ethical

in the show the PresAux crew is still A) nice in general and B) ethical, but they're also C) fairly certain their SecUnit is a person because every time they talk to it directly it looks like it's going to throw up

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Spells of My Name, I.S. Jones

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Me when a character starts experiencing an agonizingly, Horrifically, painful transformation :

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Taylor Franson-Thiel, from "You Don’t Need Another Poem About My Shame"

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I only hate certain types of fic the same way I hate mosquitos and ticks. Like get these nasty little buggers away from me but also I respect their place in the ecosystem.

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affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

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richard siken

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old book markets

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...might've discovered a new genre to lose my mind about, hold please

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— josé olivarez // natalie diaz

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WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

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not enough scenes in books where characters kill someone and throw up afterwards. like something has to be done