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You are known as the silent wanderer. Ageless because of time magic. You have lived longer then the oldest of dragons. Cursed to never being able to speak or talk in a way people can understand. But thats OK. Action speaks louder then words ever will.

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HELP WHAT ABOUT MY SANITY!@!!#("(18I3818"($XJWJWO

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oh so when a bunch of roman senators kill their leader it's #girlboss but when i, macbeth,

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You work as tech support for ancient supernatural beings who are trying to adapt to the modern world. It’s a frustrating - and at times dangerous - job, but at least your clients pay well.

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GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

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show, don't tell:

anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re-checking

frustration - grumbling - heavy footsteps - hot flush - narrowed eyes - pointing fingers - pacing / stomping

sadness - eyes filling up with tears - blinking quickly - hiccuped breaths - face turned away - red / burning cheeks - short sentences with gulps

happiness - smiling / cheeks hurting - animated - chest hurts from laughing - rapid movements - eye contact - quick speaking

boredom - complaining - sighing - grumbling - pacing - leg bouncing - picking at nails

fear - quick heartbeat - shaking / clammy hands - pinching self - tuck away - closing eyes - clenched hands

disappointment - no eye contact - hard swallow - clenched hands - tears, occasionally - mhm-hmm

tiredness - spacing out - eyes closing - nodding head absently - long sighs - no eye contact - grim smile

confidence - prolonged eye contact - appreciates instead of apologizing - active listening - shoulders back - micro reactions

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Writing Resources: Chronic Pain and Illness

Sp's resources for Content Creators Materialist

Trigger warnings for discussion of chronic pain and illness. Other authors are more than welcome to add their own points and I will update the link in the masterlist as more is added. Alternatively, send me an anon ask or DM if you want to remain anonymous. I have more than one chronic issue myself, I will use the block unbutton if you're an ass about this.

Chronic pain and illness have little to no representation in fanfiction. If you wish to add these to your story and you don't experience the subject yourself, please do research using medically accurate sources.

Patient Care and Health Information - The Mayo Clinic. Look up the condition in the search bar.

The NHS website Look up the condition in the search bar.

Another good resource is forums and subreddits.

2. Even people with the same condition have different experiences, be careful not to make blanket statements.

3. Women, POC and members of the lgbtqia+ community are less likely to get treatment, more likely to be treated like drug seekers and are more likely to be misdiagnosed or have to wait much longer for an accurate diagnosis. Similarly, their issues are more likely to be blamed on mental health issues and hypochondria.

4. Someone living with a chronic condition may not have a 'normal', or what they consider normal may be disordered. Some people with chronic conditions may not know what not being in pain or being well-rested is like. When I was younger and before my current treatment, I was never hungry or out of pain, this shocked people when I told them, it was as normal as breathing to me.

5. Doctors can suck, some people are outright terrified to get treatment due to past experiences. I was treated like a drug seeker once and now get the shakes before seeing a new doctor for fear of being called an addict.

6. The things people experiences do not care what you have going on. They can steal happy moments in a flash and render someone unable to leave their home, it's common for someone with a chronic condition to need to plan everything down to the second (or feel like they need to), cancel at the last minute or worry that they won't be able to enjoy something they have looked forward to.

7. We are not looking to be babied, I know my own limits and will express them. There is a line between a character being caring and infantilising. Having said that, there are times when I haven't expressed my needs for fear they will be ignored. If you are writing a caretaker scene or character be careful to ensure the other person still maintains their autonomy.

8. Empathy, not sympathy. Sympathy is looking down at someone in a hole and telling them they can climb out, empathy is getting in there are helping them out. Sometimes the best thing someone can hear is "I have no idea what you're going through."

9. Chronic conditions are systematic, it's not just pain, it's also brain fog, being unable to sleep or stay awake, having problems controlling emotions, and changes in appetite and sex drive.

10. There is never a magic cure, chronic conditions are a part of someone. Making them disappear doesn't mean a happy ending because, in real life, they don't disappear. It doesn't make someone less than others if they don't get better.

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“the high king, well known for leaving the fighting to his wife”- the stolen heir.

I'm laughing so hard. I miss that queenie and her loser husband (affectionate).

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SEQUAL NAME SEQUAL NAME SEQAL NA

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the way that some people in the Hamlet fandom talk about murder is so concerning. “Hamlet being a teenager instead of 30 would explain why he’s so hesitant to kill the king” he has been asked to commit murder “Hamlet’s so indecisive lmao he literally can’t do anything” he has been asked to commit murder “no explanation is given for why Hamlet took a whole 2 months before he started planning to kill the king it’s a huge plot hole” HE HAS BEEN ASKED BY SOME GHOSTLY DUDE WHO MIGHT BE HIS DEAD DAD TO KILL ANOTHER HUMAN BEING AND A MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY PLEASE TELL ME YOU GUYS WOULD NOT JUST DO THAT NO QUESTIONS ASKED

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~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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WINTERTIME GOTHIC AESTHETICS

MIDWEST DETECTIVE.    files of black and white newspaper clippings.  long beige trench coats.  lace curtains in cobwebbed attics. 1950s love songs through a.m. radio static.  piebald deer.  ominous billboards against a flat grey horizon.  leather messenger bags and cups of black coffee.  headlights through blizzards.  hatchets propped against stacks of hickory wood.  abandoned factories.  the scent of ink. blood on snow.

UNIVERSITY VAMPIRE.   white button-down shirts.  the scent of ancient books in drafty tomb-like library stacks.  wrought iron candelabras dripping wax.  gaunt portraits of renaissance noblemen in folds of red fabric.  steaming chalices of mulled wine.  garlands of dried oranges.  vitrolas playing classical symphonies.  ravens perched on the snowy sills of arched windows.black peacoats. gold astrolabes.  blood on parchment.

LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPER’S GHOST.   heavy grey wool sweaters.   fossilized trilobites & ammonites.  splintering sheets of silver  ice on inky black water.   st. elmo’s fire.  dusty sea glass bottles.  fractal patterns of frost on window panes.  boxes of matches and magazine clippings.  curling tentacles & faded tattoos.  dissonant player piano tunes.  the smell of juniper.  eerie yellow-green light through heavy fogs.  circles of salt.  blood on water.

VILLAGE WEREWOLF.   brown cobblestone cottages capped with snow.  clawmarks through sycamore bark.  baskets of yarn and knitted smoky grey cloaks.  ram’s skulls mounted stable walls.  straw dolls & fingerless gloves.  clouds of hot breath hanging in freezing air.  tapestries of black-haired beasts accented with crimson embroidery.  gas lanterns.  chanted children’s rhymes.  the scent of fir trees and rich soil.  blood on wool.

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WINTERTIME GOTHIC AESTHETICS

MIDWEST DETECTIVE.    files of black and white newspaper clippings.  long beige trench coats.  lace curtains in cobwebbed attics. 1950s love songs through a.m. radio static.  piebald deer.  ominous billboards against a flat grey horizon.  leather messenger bags and cups of black coffee.  headlights through blizzards.  hatchets propped against stacks of hickory wood.  abandoned factories.  the scent of ink. blood on snow.

UNIVERSITY VAMPIRE.   white button-down shirts.  the scent of ancient books in drafty tomb-like library stacks.  wrought iron candelabras dripping wax.  gaunt portraits of renaissance noblemen in folds of red fabric.  steaming chalices of mulled wine.  garlands of dried oranges.  vitrolas playing classical symphonies.  ravens perched on the snowy sills of arched windows.black peacoats. gold astrolabes.  blood on parchment.

LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPER’S GHOST.   heavy grey wool sweaters.   fossilized trilobites & ammonites.  splintering sheets of silver  ice on inky black water.   st. elmo’s fire.  dusty sea glass bottles.  fractal patterns of frost on window panes.  boxes of matches and magazine clippings.  curling tentacles & faded tattoos.  dissonant player piano tunes.  the smell of juniper.  eerie yellow-green light through heavy fogs.  circles of salt.  blood on water.

VILLAGE WEREWOLF.   brown cobblestone cottages capped with snow.  clawmarks through sycamore bark.  baskets of yarn and knitted smoky grey cloaks.  ram’s skulls mounted stable walls.  straw dolls & fingerless gloves.  clouds of hot breath hanging in freezing air.  tapestries of black-haired beasts accented with crimson embroidery.  gas lanterns.  chanted children’s rhymes.  the scent of fir trees and rich soil.  blood on wool.

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I can't stress enough how much the John Green debacle was an early example of how cancel culture and purity culture combine to make people feel righteously justified to engage in harassment.

John Green, during his time on tumblr, committed the heinous sins of...being neurodivergent and talking openly about it, earnestly interacting with fans in a very direct and unfiltered way, and writing about teenagers navigating first love and sexuality while he himself was an adult. The worst things he ever did were be a little cringe or misspeak, for which he was always prompt to apologize (often whether he really needed to or not).

Yet despite the former two being things tumblr claimed to love and the last one being true of 99.99% of YA authors, in this case a large segment of tumblr users steeped in the early 2010s resurgence of purity culture decided that these things were suspicious and predatory, and used that as an excuse to justify some truly awful behavior.

Which is really all that cancel culture is: the normalization and even celebration of the process of misapplying morality or ethics to dehumanize someone for the express purpose of justifying whatever pain and suffering you want to inflict upon them. Basically, deciding "this person is bad, so I am exempt from affording them basic respect and human dignity, and am allowed to cross any and all otherwise uncrossable lines in order to punish them without damaging my own moral or ethical standing."

Contrary to popular tumblr lore, the infamous "cock monologue" was not the sum total of the harassment, or even the worst of it. Callout blogs issued long lists of "receipts" about how terrible John Green was, most if not all of which were either taken out of context or completely refutable. His works were torn to shreds by people who'd never read them, as evidenced by much of the criticism being obviously and blatantly counter to the actual contents of the books.

Not that it mattered. Once the John Green hate party reached a certain level of critical mass, it became less about who he actually was or what he'd done, and more about proving you were a good person by hating him. That's the natural conclusion of cancel culture, after all: virtue signalling by identifying yourself in opposition to the cancelled parties. They're bad, and I'm good, so I hate them! Or, more often: They're bad, and I hate them, so I'm good!

Before it was over with, John Green had been accused, with no evidence, of being everything from a Nazi to a pedophile and subjected to hate mail and death threats. He eventually left the site for the sake of his own mental health, and because he no longer felt comfortable engaging directly with fans in the same way he once had.

Yet even now, with the benefit of hindsight, and even among those who ostensibly reject purity culture and condem bullying and harassment, very few on tumblr take what was done to John Green as seriously as it should be taken or condemn it as thoroughly as it should be condemned. Which I think is something we need to at least consider doing, given the increasing rise of purity and cancel culture online, and given the recent influx of professional creators eager to interact with fans on a more direct level than they have on other social media.

And my concern is not purely, or even primarily, for the Mike Flanagans and Lynda Carters of the world. I'm far more concerned, actually, for the small, independent or self-published creators in this space, and how much even a very small level of visibility gives too many people a feeling of carte blanche to engage in harassment.

I myself have less than 3k followers on here, a handful of popular posts, and zero notoriety or consequence outside of tumblr whatsoever, and I've been repeatedly told to kill myself for saying such innocuous things as "I don't think censorship is the cure for the world's evils" and "maybe learning the history of communities you want to participate in would be a good idea."

Thankfully, all it took for me to stop the harassment that came my way was to block those few individuals. But there have been many instances over the years of small creators or just random tumblr users that got a bit popular being stalked, doxxed, swatted, and harassed to the point of leaving the site and dealing with serious mental health issues as a result. It has never been just John Green. John Green isn't even the worst example. And tumblr has never learned its lesson.

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I'd prefer original fiction, but I have no problem reading FF!

I'll definitely check it out, Ty!

Wierd Take but

Are there any romance novels out there that have a Barbie plot but are, you know, spicy?

I have reached peek Barbie phase again but I don't have anything to read-

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Wierd Take but

Are there any romance novels out there that have a Barbie plot but are, you know, spicy?

I have reached peek Barbie phase again but I don't have anything to read-