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Francis Abernathy, The Secret History

Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. For a moment, as his arm touched mine, he was a creature of flesh and blood, but the next he was a hallucination again, a figment of the imagination stalking down the hallway as heedless of me as ghosts, in their shadowy rounds, are said to be heedless of the living.

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BOOKS READ IN 2020 — mockingjay; suzanne collins

it takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart

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There was a reply on that last post (which I have deleted, so don't go looking) asking why I want to defend pedophilia, and I think the crux of the issue is that i don't think fanfiction is pedophilia

The reason why pedophilia is such a shocking thing to think about and such a strong taboo across cultures is because it can result in the harm of children.

No child is harmed when someone types words on a screen and posts those words to the internet.

Now, I have no idea about the real life habits of the person who did the writing and the posting - I admit that. But neither does anyone else. That person could be a criminal, but it's much more likely they're a teenager writing a fantasy about an older actor/character they have a crush on. Or someone grappling with what was done to them when they were a child. Or someone who enjoys the sensation of being horrified and writes horrific stories because of that. Or a bunch of other types of people who have other reasons all their own.

Writing about sex (even sex you find absolutely horrific and vile) is not the same as having sex or committing rape. Writing about murder is not the same thing as actually killing someone. Writing about being drunk is not the same thing as chugging down a mickey of whiskey. I once wrote a story about waltzing and I've barely ever danced in my life.

The reason why people like me make a distinction between stories and real life is because the people in stories (even if those stories are about real people!) are only as real as the Barbies I played with when I was a kid. I used to smoosh their faces together to make them kiss. I'm doing the same thing with characters, and the smooshing is happening with words instead of dolls, but it amounts to the same thing.

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make me choose:  @leogansey asked monmouth or the barns

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«You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.»

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

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@narnianetwork voyage 18: modern au - social media

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moodboards: Hannibal Barca and Scipio Africanus

(requested by @ilittleblackcat) 

feel free to request anything!

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“She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above.”

- inej ghafa, the sea captain: six of crows, chapter twenty-two

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It’s not going to be easy—it never could be—but you have iron, and you have silver, and you can get there and back if you hurry.

the october daye series by seanan mcguire

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"

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everybody straight till the narrative foil walk in

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And its snap split the world in two.

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Apologies for the blurriness. My edit. 

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