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im gonna wring his neck

that stupid italian skank

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that stupid italian skank

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ok i'd still jump his bones though. despite whatever the fuck is going on lore-wise. i can't fix him but i'm not sure i could even try. on the account of everything

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IM SO NORMAL.

basim ibn ishaq would you like to meet my parents

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im so normal im SOOOOO normal im so normal . im sosososo normal

basim ibn ishaq would you like to meet my parents

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do u like boys or somethin🤔🧐🧐🤠

in the abstract

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basim ibn ishaq would you like to meet my parents

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basim ibn ishaq would you like to meet my parents

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What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

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ive been reading garbage romantasy lately and it's truly truly awful but i've figured out a huge symptom of fantasy worlds that i know i won't like: i cannot imagine old women or children existing in them.

everyone is late teens-early thirties. these are worlds flattened in their demographics to the coveting of sexually available youth. there are no mothers with young children, no sons caring for older mothers, no elderly people who aren't evil and no children that aren't cardboard cutouts instead of developing people.

i knowww this is a symptom of me not being the target audience for this, and i understand that people don't come to these books for complex worlds but for erotica and romance, i know! so this is my caveat before i rant more that i'm not being super serious i'm just discussing something i've noticed i appreciate in more complex worlds

it especially stings in medieval fantasy (and by that i mean largely Western medieval fantasy) settings. it reeks of an inability or refusal to conceptualize a society and communities (or lack thereof) isolated from modern capitalist ideals, particularly the nuclear family. you don't know the kind of labor elderly women did to keep the world running in the premodern era.

who taught your nondescript background serfs to embroider the belts they're wearing? who made their 'roughspun tunics?' who weaved their blankets? who cares for the children while the parents are working in the fields? who brews their ale? who passes on their stories, medical knowledge, songs? why aren't there any older women in your clergy, helping manage your estates, present in your royal court? who are your midwives? who does your teenaged protagonist learn from and look up to?

beyond that, how do you treat your old women? are they all evil witches, all tradition-obsessed backward fossils, all smothering female relatives, all background extras? are they and their bodies cheap punchlines and jumpscares? where do your women go when they're too old for you to imagine them with sexual appetites and complex personalities beyond grandmothers and jealous evil hags?

children exist as infants or late teens only, ironing out the uncomfortable ugly years of a person becoming a person, teens without acne and without social awkwardness and fully developed in their competencies and personalities without the difficult part of growing up and learning included. babies are allowed because they're cute, they're basically props, a goalpost for the main romance of the book to satisfy heteropatriarchal expectations of couples instead of the main characters subverting any expectations. not to mention that most of these protagonists i can't imagine being 12, 13 years old. they sprung up fully formed at 19 before being whisked away by a love interest so overtly sexual he circles around to being sexless and utterly unappealing.

don't get me STARTED on how i hate seeing characters propping up relationships of main characters instead of being complex on their own.

this post is about ACOTAR.

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this is. i feel like. LEAVE ME ALONE!! aougggh akira akira!!! AGHHH!!

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A fictional guy should only be made blonde to signify that there's something wrong with him

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its actually such a shame that's a reference to a niche fandom cuz i feel like the phrase "queer into oblivion" would do numbers within the vocabulary of strange young homosexuals

happy pride month it's time to queer all your characters into oblivion

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happy pride month it's time to queer all your characters into oblivion

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THE WAY IT CUTS OFF AT THE END IS SENDING ME

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hi sorry i'm gonna stop yapping but if you've been following me since i started drawing linked universe you've been with me through senior year of high school through completing graduate school. you may be entitled to financial compensation