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even if it kills me

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I hate that thing some people do where it's like. "I left my wallet on the table to see if you'd say anything" or "I wanted to see if you'd wash the car if I stopped doing it"

Cause like

I dont know about anyone else

But I am perpetually hovering three inches above the strong subconscious belief that everyone knows what they're doing at all times except me, so if you change your normal patterns and I notice, then I will assume it is an intentional choice with a thought-out plan behind it and I will avoid interfering

And if I don't notice, because I won't, because why would I, because not much bothers me and if you don't say anything to indicate you are bothered then how would I KNOW

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thinkign about characters i like being sweet and tender with each other

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I think 50 shades of grey did so much damage to BDSM writing in fic and like not because I think fic writers were taking inspiration from it, but we did get a lot of detailed explanatory posts about all the different ways in which those guys were Doing It Wrong, which is not in and of itself a bad thing but since then everybody got so hung up on making sure everybody in their fics was nothing like 50 shades of grey and actually demonstrates that yes I do understand the principles of safe sane and consensual and the traffic light system and safewording and aftercare and checking in that now everybody fucks like a 101 handbook and I think we've only just recently started to recover from it. love me a dynamic where it's two repressed freak idiots who accidentally invent BDSM all on their own and have to come up with the strangest most deeply harmful ways of navigating that situation

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vox doodles + cw angst below

angst cw

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every time i go outside i am astounded by the power of sun and air

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bringing it up again for the millionth time but I'm still obsessed with the way that hannibal lecter is canonically aware of the narrative not because its ever explicitly stated but because the author who created him genuinely believes this to be true and stopped writing the book series because he's afraid of him

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maybe top 10 posts ever

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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It's been a while since I drew Ginko, but he's always in my heart.

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I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

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its extremely important to read widely and deeply in a variety of genres. read obscure self published shit that only 4 people have read. read culturally relevant works of literature that have helped shape the canon. read horror. read women's lit. read historical fiction and comedies and nonfiction and hentai and poetry and science fiction and fantasy and mysteries and romance and good things and bad things and things u hate and things you love and things you COULD like if only the author changed x y and z and things which are beautiful but not meant for you.

doing all of this reading will lay a groundwork of rich complexity in your heart. so that you can write really good porn

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ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

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happy pride month!

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Thinking about religious horror as a genre, and how it kind of had its heyday in the late 60s and 70s with movies like Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973) and The Wicker Man (1973) and The Omen (1976). And of course, religious horror never really went away, but I don't think that any of the movies in the genre since then have really had the cultural cachet of any of these ones. And I think that what it comes down to is that these movies came out right at the point where the overwhelming hegemony of Christianity in Anglo countries started to go into decline. Like, Rosemary's Baby explicitly tied its horror into Time Magazine's infamous 1966 "IS GOD DEAD?" cover:

In The Wicker Man, Lord Summerisle explicitly says that the island reverted to Paganism because the Christian God had his shot and blew it. It's not subtle. And I think that the problem with the religious horror produced since then is that it, by and large, isn't really responding to a widespread cultural anxiety so much as it's just reshuffling tropes from the 70s. "Exorcism is scary, right? Throw in an exorcism! Ooh, spooky Nuns!" You can get some scares out of it but not the same cultural reach.

Anyway, I think that if you wanted to make horror that responded to contemporary religious anxieties, you'd almost be better off with premise that God isn't dead.

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Here, You Shall Live Forever

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there are. broadly speaking. 2 types of whump fanfictions. the first is the type where the author is torturing the character or putting them in situations because they are a sexual or emotional pervert, or better yet both, which is the good and righteous whump. and then the 2nd type is the shit i dont like that reads like that daniel ortberg piece on how to respond to criticism where the point is just what a pwoor little baby the blorbo is and how everyone thinks they look so brave and beautiful suffering under the waterfall