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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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Be honest: Have you ever loved reading fanfiction for a pairing you don't actually know, without any intention to ever read or watch the actual source material?

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Are you reading a multi chapter fic? Try leaving a comment when you take a break! Did I just remind you of a fic you read a couple of days ago? Go back and comment on it!

"Reread kudos," keysmashes, and emojis are all good comments! Show those writers how much you appreciate them!

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In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Thanks to Pillowfort users, we're more than halfway toward our monthly funding goal for June! Support an independent platform and help keep Pillowfort's lights on: pillowfort.social/donations

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I recently saw a post about people who genuinely believe they are too revolting to be dated, liked, be befriended, whatever. Not incels or antisocial by nature people, but people who have just had such terrible experiences socially since they were young, that they can't ever imagine themselves being good enough to actually be liked. People who reject the idea that anyone could be interested them platonic and romantic. Imagining that someone might be attracted to them causes second hand embarrassment and a deep feeling of cringe at even just the idea. Looking at pictures or videos of yourself causes revulsion, and mental crisis.

I realized that I'm one of these people. It just sucks because it's such an ingrained part of my psyche.

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Funny when it's Groucho Marx. Shitty when it's how you have to live.

Get therapy. Not in the internet insult sense: in the sense that there are actually professionals who specialize in this sort of thing.

If you can't access one, you can at least start with that practice where you cut off negative thoughts consciously throughout the day. Basically, you pretend you're talking about someone else and go "Would you talk about your friend that way?" It feels artificial and bizarre at first, but it seems to work a lot better than one would think.

This isn't your true underlying personality, dude: it's a deeply entrenched bad habit like smoking, and—like smoking—it's probably a shitty coping mechanism for something or other. Also like smoking, it will be hard to quit, but people do succeed.

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Also, I'm quite suddenly not going to be able to afford all my bills this coming month, so I will be hyping up my commissions and working as quickly as I can. But, like I said in my previous post, my health is at the unbearable-can't-push-through point so if anyone has even like $1 to spare, it would be so appreciated if you could send me a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/batwynn or, if you'd like access to a bunch of exclusive art, sticker club stuff, comics, and NSFW stuff, you can join my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Batwynn

No pressure, of course. I know everyone's going through it right now, and I'm genuinely so sorry to ask this yet again. I don't know what else to do right now, and please believe me that I've been trying to find any kind of remote work that I can do for like 2 years now and nothing has panned through. I am trying, I promise that I'm trying.

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I love when you find an author who just has a good flavor to their writing. It could be the way they handle characters, the way they use certain tropes or themes, even the specific lilt of their words. Its familiar and comforting and carries across different stories, like coming back to a place of comfort and recognizing the furniture.

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Rings my fucking bell, like a perennial fucking plague maiden:

Center harm, not disgust!

When in doubt (and when not in doubt, just swept by problems bigger than you and assured by someone that they know the answer, so don't think right now, just Do!), center harm.

Focus on what specific harm you're reducing with your actions. Make sure it's tangible and concrete. If your actions are minimizing hypothetical harm at the cost of real, tangible harm on others, 9 out 10 times you're on the wrong fucking side, being weaponized by propaganda.

If a conversation revolves around disgust as a driver for action, you're being radicalized. If a call to action depends on your emotional response, you're being manipulated. I'm sorry, this isn't the 90s anymore, social media has eroded the web of respectability of the pre internet society. The primary axis for misinformation to spread in this day and age is emotional response: half the things you believe are true and share as such are not based on fact, expert opinion or personal research. Social media has conditioned us (all of us! You and me and most dangerously of all, the idiots we put in power) that if something feels true, it probably is.

But do you know for sure it is? Do you think it's true because you have first hand experience or actual time spent on reputable sources learning it to be fact? Or just because it aligns with your worldview and it would be nice for you if it were true?

Are you taking action because you're angry and a group of fellow angry folk invited you to join them? Do you have a plan or is this just catharsis? Are you aware of the consequences of your actions or are you drunk on rage and focused only on the immediate future?

Center harm. Center specific actions and their consequences.

Discomfort is not harm. Disgust is not harm. Hypothetical paranoia is not harm.

The reactionary pipeline is real and your self-image as a progressive is not actually enough to save you from falling down the hole. Radicalization is not hinged on politics alone. Saying you're a leftist is worthless if your thought process and actions themselves are indistinguishable from qanon losers. Conspiratorial thought has literally no politics inherently, and your insistence it does is pure lack of critical thought on display.

Center harm, not feelings, not politics, not group think.

Center harm, and remember that individual actions cannot dismantle systemic structures on their own, so anyone who calls for individual action at the cost of community structures is not actually trying to change anything, and instead actively suppressing efforts to make anything better in any way.

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New Nark fic drop 😘

Lemons by GiaSoFetch | Rated: M | Word count: 1111 | Tags: fluffy smut, established relationship, first kiss, alternate universe | Ship: Lark Oak/Nick Close

Summary: The first time he kissed Nick, Lark's mouth had been sticky with the lemon flavored snow cone he'd been eating.

Excerpt:

Nick started to ask where they were going, but he didn't get the chance. His lips were still moving when Lark kissed him; he caught on quick enough. His mouth was chilled from swimming, and tasted faintly like lake water, and…perfect. It was perfect. He caught Lark's jaw in a firm grip, just how he liked, and licked into his mouth, deepening their kiss all slow and methodical. The air sweltered around them, even without the sun. Lark's palms skated over Nick's chest, slick from his swim. Bugs buzzed and birds twittered, the fire crackled and popped over their friends' voices in the distance. When he peeled Nick's trunks off his hips, he caught his wrist. “Keep kissing me,” he whispered, nuzzling their noses together.

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In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

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New Nark fic drop 😘

Lemons by GiaSoFetch | Rated: M | Word count: 1111 | Tags: fluffy smut, established relationship, first kiss, alternate universe | Ship: Lark Oak/Nick Close

Summary: The first time he kissed Nick, Lark's mouth had been sticky with the lemon flavored snow cone he'd been eating.

Excerpt:

Nick started to ask where they were going, but he didn't get the chance. His lips were still moving when Lark kissed him; he caught on quick enough. His mouth was chilled from swimming, and tasted faintly like lake water, and…perfect. It was perfect. He caught Lark's jaw in a firm grip, just how he liked, and licked into his mouth, deepening their kiss all slow and methodical. The air sweltered around them, even without the sun. Lark's palms skated over Nick's chest, slick from his swim. Bugs buzzed and birds twittered, the fire crackled and popped over their friends' voices in the distance. When he peeled Nick's trunks off his hips, he caught his wrist. “Keep kissing me,” he whispered, nuzzling their noses together.

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Naps are a forbidden technique, I think. If you pull them off just right you'll access a pool of near-endless rejuvenating power, but if you mess up some inscrutable part of the ritual your vitality and might will be sapped and you'll be left at the mercy of your opponents

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@2dents !!!!!!!!!

hello, and welcome to the first ever shipcestember: a month-long event dedicated to celebrating incest ships of all flavors!

we’re multifandom and multimedia friendly, and are excited to see everyone’s wonderful creations.

in order to participate, please visit the event’s strawpage (currently a wip) to view the rules, faq, and other important information!

more information coming soon <3

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Are you reading a multi chapter fic? Try leaving a comment when you take a break! Did I just remind you of a fic you read a couple of days ago? Go back and comment on it!

"Reread kudos," keysmashes, and emojis are all good comments! Show those writers how much you appreciate them!

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I found an interesting profile on AO3 today (or at least, it was interesting to me!). The person created their account in 2015, and had almost 200 works, but their profile said "commissions are always open". A few sentences down, they reiterated that they "take fanfic commissions", and they linked to a price sheet on their tumblr.

I'm intrigued how they managed to have an active AO3 for a decade, but somehow didn't osmose the fact that commission ads are not allowed on AO3. I can't imagine with that many fics to potentially lose in a suspended account, it would be intentional.

Unless it is intentional, and they're just insanely brave.

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I wouldn't call it brave, just assholish and dismissive of one's fellow fans.