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Mutuals when you like multiple things on my blog I click through to see which posts have pleased you because ily

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Asking because my brother is one of the straightest people I've ever met despite how similar we are, but a lot of queer people I know seem to have at least one queer sibling.

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the human mind is prone to catastrophizing when left unoccupied. And that’s why it’s important to always have a little Blorbo to rotate in your head. It acts as a protective charm of sorts to redirect your imagination away from harmful spirals

thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that

thoughts with Blorbo: I haven’t considered the interactions with bleebus; I must rectify this immediately

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Also something I think people forget a lot of the time is that while fic can be "as good" as an original work, it doesn't mean the fic will be good AS an original work. They're entirely separate genres.

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my favorite time is lights out bedtime in jammies lay in bed and beat my OCs with metal bats for bedtime story in my brain

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love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

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we need a lying on the ground dead emoji now more than ever

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the bisexuality was there. it didnt change anything. it didn't save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the bisexuality was there

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I think I've made this post before but writing a research paper really makes me realize how perfectly Paul Murray nailed Ruprecht's academia-coded speech patterns lol if that makes sense

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and ONE MORE THING about the "literary fiction doesn't have gay people" argument is that it creates the implication that published fiction is for straight people while fanfiction is for queer people which is like. so insulting and infantilizing to queer people

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also like. the thing about published fiction is that it's not necessarily going to tell you right off the bat if it has queer characters in it. you can't just look at a summary of a book and dismiss it because it doesn't explicitly say there are gay people in it--bc a book summary is not the same thing as ao3 tags. sometimes the fact that a character is queer is not significant enough to the plot to be mentioned, sometimes it's too significant to the story so it has to be revealed and deconstructed in the plot--but to know that you have to actually READ BOOKS

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just. it's so ridiculous that people whose hobbies allegedly involve reading will not read books. it's baffling to me.

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this is not a drag on fanfiction but if you find yourself consistently saying “wow fic is better than most published stuff!! and it’s free!!” it might be a sign that your brain is ready for and craving more complicated literature than the books you are used to gravitating towards

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this is not a drag on fanfiction but if you find yourself consistently saying “wow fic is better than most published stuff!! and it’s free!!” it might be a sign that your brain is ready for and craving more complicated literature than the books you are used to gravitating towards

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the inherent whatever of anything

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everyone deserves, at least once in their life, to read a book that feels like it was written exactly, specifically for you