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honestly, especially in the current state of the world, you all have GOT to kill whatever puritanical voice inside your head keeps insisting that if something is erotic it has no social, artistic, or intellectual merit.

stop acting as if someone can’t enjoy both erotica and literary fiction or classics. it’s not some dichotomy.

stop acting as if erotic art can’t be poignant and meaningful. and that includes all erotic art - not just fine art.

stop insisting that sex scenes or erotic material ruin movies and shows just because you, personally, get icked out watching it.

no, not all erotic art is high art, and not all erotic art is meant to invoke deep intellectual discussion - but insisting that makes erotic art valueless, a disservice to intellectualism, or whatever else - does nothing but add fuel to a fire built on conservative ideology.

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this, because all I can think about is an alternate timeline where the girlies got absolutely sauced on this book and instead of inventing the Omegaverse, people just wrote Kemmering AUs instead.

to be clear, Ursula K. LeGuin would hate this

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Jk Rowling will die in my lifetime and that’s so beautiful to think about

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i love sluts i love perverts i love dykes i love faggots i love aromantics i love freaks i love librarians i love ibuprofen

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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listen as much as i love monsterfucking content and believe that make believe land can have whatever the fuck you want i have a pet peeve i have to get off my chest

if the character doesn’t have ovaries, they don’t go into heat. i’m so fucking sorry to tell you this. “heat” is basically ovulation.

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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the infuriating thing is that there is genuinely so much good queer literature out there, contemporary and not, but there is also a sizeable chunk of readers who think that a book only "counts" as good queer literature if it's a) unproblematic, b) contains romance as its central focus, and c) has the characters state their orientation and/or gender identity directly to the audience using socially acceptable 21st-century terms (as opposed to resorting to cowardly tactics such as Subtext and Themes)

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hate what people did to the dead dove tag

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Shout out to characters who want to be used. Shout out to characters who are so desperate to be worth something that they'll endure anything. Shout out to characters who build their entire self worth around being useful, being a tool. Shout out to characters who don't care how they are treated, as long as someone pays them any attention at all

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i was gonna make a post saying its funny when in scifi the aliens dont say humans they call us terrans or earthlings or whatever. but while thinking about it i was like. well yknow in english we dont say 日本人 or nederlanders or les français so maybe its fairly accurate that aliens would pick some other word for us. we could probably get weirder about it actually.

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fanfic writers what font do you write in

i know on ao3 it's all in verdana but when you're drafting the fic in word or docs or whatever

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"College is a place of liberal indoctrination."

And what possible motive would liberals have to put their indoctrination behind one of the biggest paywalls to have ever existed?

College is often the first time that someone regularly interacts with a diverse crowd. College is often the first time that someone is encouraged to think for themselves instead of blindly trusting their parents.

They're not being indoctrinated to be liberal. They were previously indoctrinated to be conservative and are now being freed from that.

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the big thing about scar acceptance (or lack of thereof) is that people either are uncomfortable with what the scar reminds them of (usually self harm, hate crimes sometimes) or they think the scar is unsightly and make up excuses to justify it. the thing is that you can never really know why someone has a scar. you can guess at what caused it - like the way burns scars would look different from surgical scars would look different from other sorta wound scars. but you're not gonna know why those scars are there, even if you try and make a good guess. (which actually, you should only do in the comfort of your mind and/or away from the scarred person in general.)

but how are you supposed to know those scars are self harm scars and not inflicted by someone else. how will you know the burn scar isn't self inflicted? you won't, and you can't without constant deeply invasive questioning that quite frankly nobody deserves.

and then so like what. the multiple scars on someone's arms weren't self inflicted. but it looks indistinguishable from scars that are self inflicted. people not in the know will mistake the two. there's no way to make a meaningful distinction without both blaming people for things that have happened to them, and moralising about what sort of pain is acceptable to have. there's no way to finagle what sort of scars are or aren't acceptable without exposing the hypocrisy for what it is: some part of someone's body made you a little uncomfortable, and you feel like you have the right to enact that discomfort onto them in the form of shame and policing.