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This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

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It's World Book Day!

To me, every day is a book day, and I'm grateful for all the great books I got to read in the past 2 years, for the new perspectives they offered. Here's a selection of those that left the biggest impact and made my life richer (although my bank account wouldn't agree)

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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Recommendation from beta reader: "Basically, rewrite this scene"

Me: "Do I really have to?"

*eventually does rewrite*

Me: "Oh shit, yeah, this is better"

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Second year in a row I'm getting a tattoo on my birthday, might become a tradition at this point 🤔

Also entering now my era of book-inspired tattoos, this one being a quote from the Bone Season series by Samantha Shannon. The full quote goes:

"Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair."

Unfortunately I don't have enough skin on my arm for the full quote...

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happy birthday!

Hope you have a great day 🤍🌞

Thank you 😊

I'm preparing to get some more ink into my body, that will be my treat for myself 🙂

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Can we normalize the idea that women can have deep voices? please?? Especially for trans women who feel gross or out of place for their deep voice.

Please, break the standard that all women have high pitched, perfect, feminine voices.

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not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.

this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.

i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless

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#EidMubarak to all the Muslims I know, to those who follow me, to those who stand alongside their oppressed brothers and above all to those in Gaza, Sudan, Congo and Yemen.

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Imagine there's a group of people that's so easily endorsed, just say they exist and aren't all criminals by default, and they'll support the hell out of you

And yet...

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

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Me: "Okay, chapter 1 is done for good now, won't need to edit that anymore"

My brain, 5 days later: "So, hear me out..."