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ooo aaaaaaaa surprise!

The Beast In On His Chain (ch 29) is up!

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anyone else remember being 13 on tumblr and every morning youd scroll down until you got to posts from the night before like it was the morning paper 

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ooo aaaaaaaa surprise!

The Beast In On His Chain (ch 29) is up!

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There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

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made the enormous mistake of scrolling back through a chat that made me feel so melancholy i want to lie down or go back in time and i did that instead of fucking writing like i'm supposed to be doing

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...... i've tried changing but like straight up i'm making the active choice that i'm going to keep using em dashes with spaces around them because i just like the way it looks better. i like the way it makes the sentence feel so far as pacing goes. less breathless, more a pause. same as i'm going to keep saying doorframe and shoulderblade as a compound words and whatall. the language does what i tell it to do etc etc

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strange feeling of watching notes go up on a post and waiting for someone to willfully misinterpret your meaning in the least charitable way possible. bc u know its coming eventually

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*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inheritly selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

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Some people in the queer community need to stop being terrified of beards and facial hair, especially when it’s not on a gentle soft muscle chub binary gay man or on trans men. Nonbinary people and lesbians who have facial hair do not deserve to feel as alienated from their communities just because they have facial hair. Amab enbies can have beards and present masc while still being nonbinary the same way that afab people can still use makeup and still be non-binary.

If you think it’s crummy to just assume being non-binary is just woman lite, then we have got to make queer spaces more friendly and accepting of men and masc people in general. Otherwise you start getting terfy and falling into the very same rhetoric you claim to hate. And that’s not even touching on the harm this gatekeeping is causing to those diagnosed with PCOS, a hormonal condition that can cause excessive body hair growth in cis women. Masculinity is not ugly and queerness does not equal the exclusion of masculinity nor the presence of femininity. We are a community, not a “no boys allowed” club. This isn’t Drag Race where the least campy queer loses and gets sent home, we’re all trying to fucking survive here.

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actually we should start headcanoning female characters as being terrible with children

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I don't care. I don't care. borders aren't fucking real. borders are meaningless. people should go wherever they want I don't give a fuck. governments should be HAPPY if their area of influence attracts people from other places. borders are nothing. countries are a make believe game. people should go where they want to. "immigration" is a fake issue for idiots. die mad

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"where are the audio dramas made by women??"

"where are the audio dramas made by poc??"

they are here. they exist and they are plentiful. you just need to stop listening to the same show 3 shows made by white men on repeat. it is always so painfully clear to me the difference between people who are fans of Audio Drama as a medium and people who are fans of (insert big show here). When their chosen fixation fails to provide the representation that they claim to advocate for, they make up for it via diverse headcanons instead of listening to shows Made by marginalized communities.

expand your horizons. don't just reblog posts with lists of shows made by marginalized communities, actually listen to those shows. talk about them on social media. the Big Shows don't need more publicity, they will be popular forever. put your mouth and your support where you claim it is.

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i am so pro abortion it actually makes me mad when a character in a show is revealed to be pregnant & she immediately doesn't get an abortion

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"All monsters must die bloody, and by a hero's hands, and soon," he says over brunch.

He doesn't think it's a rude thing to say in front of a monster. There are no rude things to say to monsters, only rude things monsters say.

"Don't worry," she says between bites, "You're one of the good ones."

"But I am still a monster," I do not say. I do not say that I love my claws and teeth, my prehensile shadow and my glowing eyes. That I cannot imagine giving them up even for survival, that to hide my shadow and trim my claws for them makes me feel diminished. In public I cannot say that I do not wish to be human.

They're progressives, this bunch, even if he carries a hero's banner with its proud history and none of them ask him to put it away. They know there are good monsters, monsters who can speak eloquently and hold the fork right, monsters you can be seen with in public. Some of their best friends are monsters.

They do not know the monster who is invited to brunch knows solidarity with the monster who is not. Believes and understands the monster who is not invited more than the human who does the inviting.

"Isn't that a little harsh?" says a third human, and I have not forgotten I am outnumbered. "We have ways of killing monsters without blood now, painlessly. And, of course, a monster should be allowed to live if it never growls."

He has never seen me growl. Yet how loudly and endlessly I will, when I'm out of earshot. He's talking about killing monsters who cannot stoop to civility, about mother and brother and lover who were never able to mute themselves like me, and does he not know how small a child who can only growl is?

"To growl is not to kill," I say, and all heads turn toward me. It is one of those rude things monsters say.

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This is a sign for you to write that self-indulgent fic