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have you lot heard about the tiktoker who’s taking on the actual government over a parking ticket? because she’s a hero

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It’s spring!

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Happy 120-somethingth anniversary to Mina and Jonathan Murray-Harker

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Six Sentence Sunday

thanks for the tags @martsonmars @monbons @that-disabled-princess @orange-peony @thewholelemon and @bookishbroadwayandblind!

i just got back from Manchester pride and am absolutely knackered, but it was worth it. i posted a few photos and videos here. i don't have the energy to write anything right now, but here's some writing i did on thursday, some Helenus POV because i felt i'd been neglecting my boy

"Will you stay?" Cassandra whispers, catching me by the hand as I go to leave. She looks vulnerable and small in her too-large bed, and part of me wants to say yes, to curl up beside her in the dark like when we were children and pretend we are in the womb again, safe and free from worry in our own little world. But I can feel expectant eyes on me, hot breath on the back of my neck, and I shake my head.

"I'm wanted back at the temple."

"You mean he wants you." She pouts, then pops her thumb in her mouth and rolls over, turning her back to me before I can reply.

i've realised that in all three of my wips i have a characters who are a set of boy-girl twins, what's up with that? i can't really help it in Helenus and Cassandra's case, the myths did that for me.

meanwhile in my fantasy novel, they were originally both boys, before i realised it made way more sense thematically to gender flip one of them. nothing else changed about her character, but now her relationship is sapphic which is always a bonus.

and then in my miners strike novel, i want to explore the different experiences men and women had, and just figured if they're twins that erases the question of whether a difference in age impacts their different treatment and experiences.

tags and hellos: @forabeatofadrum @cutestkilla @run-for-chamo-miles @roomwithanopenfire @prettygoododds @bookish-bogwitch @youarenevertooold @noblecorgi @larkral @confused-bi-queer @aristocratic-otter @artsyunderstudy @alexalexinii @hushed-chorus @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @meanjeansjeans @leithillustration @j-trow-95 @blackberrysummerblog and @ic3que3n

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drawing people i see in the city (60/?)

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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!

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— DERRY GIRLS 2.03 — FLEABAG 2.03

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"when you say this character is a woman to you you're saying you associate certain traits with femininity" actually I'm saying I'm a lesbian and I want him sexually

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manchester pride!

some of my favourite parts of the parade:

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GET A LOAD OF THAT DOG

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*What the they ask = if they want to download the work to their device and/or if they want to print it out

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something awful happening on this blog where i post arguments that historian is a proper profession and not a glorified hobby and then post news that a major us university has halted all language studies admissions (including classics and other historical languages) and is revising its entire undergrad curriculum because they deem anything not english and not ''''american'''' superfluous and not beneficent.

your anti-intellectualism does not exist in a vacuum. the humanities is not a hobby. scholars are not the enemy. administrations working with and bowing down to a fascist regime are, and this is what kills diversity and critical thought. this is another form of censorship.

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love seeing 3 men wearing t shirts saying "protect scouse dolls" at pride but we are in manchester. not liverpool. not sure how many scouse dolls there will be here.

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reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.

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people aren't even getting a little bit genghis khan anymore. you guys used to love getting a little bit genghis khan