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reject canon, embrace delusion

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i want so badly to be more offline but alas the siren call of images

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TAYLOR SWIFT for 'Fortnight' music video behind the scenes

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Your commentary really added nothing to that post that had not already been said. Also "try to design a better system"? We are. Look up prison abolition or even criminal rehabilitation.

I don’t think you will enjoy my tumblr much

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also i do feel like every conversation about the way taylor swift approaches relationships and writing about them needs to be had with, like, a land acknowledgement-style disclaimer beforehand that she is a child star freak of nature with military helicopter parents and some obvious neurodivergent qualities that make her, in literally every regard, Not Normal

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RANDOM DASHBOARD INSPECTION!

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goat fight. non-negotiable.

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Babe I swear I just saw their reblog first, I didn’t ignore yours, it was just that yours was further down the dash, that’s not on me that’s on tumblr babe, tumblr wants to drive a wedge between us, I love you I swear babe, pls believe me pls don’t let them win

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Internet Safety

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the House of the Sewn Tongue, the Jawless Skull of the Ninth House or Anastasia performing homebrew mandible surgery

I like theories that she had a sewn tongue after failed lyctorhood or the tomb

Idk how much is this possible but I wanted to draw this idea, let Anastasia spill the tea

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I’ve officially decided my favorite relationship trope is “at first I was perpetually bothered by your mere existence but somewhere along the way you became my best friend and oh yeah I’m also in love with you.” Nothing else matters.

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I got actual work done this weekend but more importantly I drew PAM WHO DEATH FORGOT

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I think if you’re going to write period fiction about girls set somewhere in the last two centuries, you should read fiction about girls written during that point in the last two centuries.

For instance, I happen to have a couple shelves full of girls’ books from the start of the 20th century, and I can tell you that–at least in America–Acceptable Young Woman Protagonists of the time tended to do things like

drive cars (some books are about “auto clubs,” which is an especially fun window into the time. I wish I liked my car as much as these girls do theirs)

fly planes (mostly in books about flying, but not only that)

go to women’s colleges (MOST of them do this!)

run their own social lives, very much including dating

get jobs

And that’s not even including the spy/crime book heroines, who also tend to Face Down Criminals and Solve Mysteries and Save The Nation. Which…is not and was never intended to be realistic, probably, but was clearly acceptable in books for girls.

So I really question the Historical Female Characters who absolutely must carve out their own anachronistic ways to get anything done under the Oppressive Social Norms Of Their Time. Like…Betsy of the Betsy-Tacy books was having a fairly modern high school experience and planning to go to college and become a professional writer in the 1910s, with her family and friends’ full support. Maybe just move to Minnesota, girls?

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