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I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

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Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.

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Autistic trauma is so devastating and yet so corny. You'll be doing everything perfectly normal in public but someone will sneer at you and you'll spend an hour agonizing over yourself like "fuck what if no one told me it was Don't Wear Yellow Thursday"

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byron donalds gave his life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot. now you too can learn what religion you can convert to in a fast food restaurant parking lot by spinning these handy links!

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i feel like something that's missing from some people's understanding of kink fiction and fantasy is, like... in fiction and fantasy, everything is in-scene.

when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.

so like. when fiction does kink in a way that would be unsafe or harmful irl... just keep in mind that you're not watching actual people neglecting check-ins or ignoring their set contract or genuinely harming each other. you're watching a scene without the behind-the-scenes bits, and that's okay.

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Artist Yudori musing on queer expression and queerness in fiction, diverging by cultural perception. [originally posted on instagram]

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Pro tip is you can literally just read more books and get curious about books instead of generalizing about Publishing Today. There are thousands upon thousands of books out there being published by all kinds of presses from the big 5 to tiny indie presses. Go to your local library or independent bookstore or Bookshop.org and browse. Writing off the entirety of contemporary publishing for being too whatever is just as much anti-intellectualism as complaining that books are too hard for the average reader.

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i'm sorry but a lot of you guys need to be writing short stories.

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they just created a new type of enjoyment called "friends' ocs." it kind of rocks and everyone should enjoy it

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Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

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sending an ask when u have ocd is so scary like what if in that one ask i called that person 9 slurs and misgendered them and killed their mother

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having multiple online friends who live nowhere near you is agony. but having online friends who live near eachother and send you photos of their adventures together will turn you into the joker.

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one thing about me is i'm always going to need #mynothing. sometimes I do just want to lay in bed curled up and not speak for a few hours.

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the procrastinator’s mind will invent distractions you’ve never conceived of in order to avoid tasks even a dog could do.

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"That's not a rumour that's a memory" about Daisuke "hearing a rumour" that he kicked Olethra's bully out of town has the same energy as "I wasn't always a fire fighter....I went to Highschool and then to community college and then I became a fire fighter" "That's not a secret that's just a normal life" with Ricky. Zac is so good at bluntly saying the stupidest shit it always makes me laugh