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Daniel x Vala + Hugs (Stargate: SG-1)

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If you live in the USA take this quiz and tell me how many you get right

(and like, reblog for sample size maybe)

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i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

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Hangster but put them on The Bachelor

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Glen Powell in Scream Queens (2015-2016)

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MANNY JACINTO — ''FREAKIER FRIDAY'' Interview (2025)

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shakespeare was ahead of his time

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Bradley walks up to Jake at the bar and stops right in front of him. He picks up Jake's hand and Jake lets him, curious. Bradley places Jake‘s fingers on his shirt, then with with a little bit of swagger, trying to tamp down the heart eyes, from under his eyelashes says, "Feel that? That‘s boyfriend material."

Jake, flushed, rolls his eyes but it‘s an act. "Yes, big guy. We‘ve established that."

They‘ve been together for three months the first time Bradley does it; they have 'defined the relationship' and they‘re both psyched. It becomes one of their routines. It‘s obnoxious. Jake pretends to hate it. (LOVES it)

Then two years later Bradley does the same thing. Takes Jake‘s hand, places it on his chest. "Feel that?"

Jake grins, takes a sip of beer with his free hand.

"That‘s husband material."

Jake chokes on his beer and all the smoothness Bradley tried to convey flies right out of the window as he thumps Jake‘s back and helps him recover.

And that’s how Bradley proposed to Jake.

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Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

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Do you think that when Rooster tries to eject and can't, before Hangman saves them, that he gets an answer to the question he's had for most of his life? He finally knows what his dad felt before he died, that fear, that hope dying as you realise you're stuck and can't do anything? Do you think he realises everything about why Mav pulled his papers, apart from his mum of course, that realised how traumatising it was for him to know his backseater, his best friend, died? Do you think it really set things in place for him understanding and forgiving Mav? Do you think he realised his mum was also the reason, when he thought about how his mum lost his dad so tragically?

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Rooster and Hangman holidaying in Florence

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i am. so sorry if i have ever used the phrase “i have an au where—” and led you to believe that there is an actual fic out there for you to read rather than, at best, a post where i explain the concept, and at worst it is simply something that lives in my brain

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ROBERT 'BOB' REYNOLDS THUNDERBOLTS (2025)

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a bruise and arousal are the same btw. blood rushing to a part of the body thats desperate for attention

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@pscentral ▪️ event 40 – typography / quotes THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) I N C O N C E I V A B L E ↳ Are you sure nobody's followed us? It would be inconceivable.