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Stunning.

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trauma therapy has been swell

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I wasn't fully with this until a couple years ago. I watched good omens season one with my parents and afterwards we discussed the friendship between Crowley and Aziraphale. They only saw friendship where I saw something queer and other. They did not notice any of the subtle they/thems used or the more ham handed metaphor of Crowley changing his name as he became his own creature away from his parent/God

But okay fine I thought, cos Good Omens is not explicitly queer! You can absolutely watch that show and think everyone's het. Even in season two, you can easily watch that kiss and the evil gay demon assaulting a straight good angel if you want to. There's nothing truly in the text of the show correcting you if you don't want to see it

But then I watched Our Flag Means Death with my dad and at the end of season one this man who I love and who has always supported queer people and who loves and supports his two non-binary bisexual kids, turned and said "I think Stede should have killed the man who stole his wife and taken her back" Like??? The show actively textually celebrates finding yourself and joy through being queer.

(I do think my dad has an issue w divorce, I think his take was more around divorce is bad than being straight is good. Everyone has baggage).

Anyway my point is even when it's explicit in the text that these characters are GAY and HAPPY ABOUT IT people can still choose to come away being like "well the het married couple are the best example out of that." Like op said, everyone's gonna have a different take

So, enjoy your subtext and enjoy your text, neither is a slam dunk

If the only valid queer rep is explicit queer rep, that's a huge problem. There are lots of old books that simply could not include explicit rep. There are lots of new books that it wouldn't make sense for the rep to be explicit. There are a lots of settings where they're not going to take a moment and go "by the way, I'm bi, not gay."

There has to be room for subtextual and interpretative queerness, even when discussing a canon where queerness is never acknowledged as existing.

There also has to be room for people to disagree with those interpretations, and of course some interpretations will be more supportable, canonically, than others, and sometimes we simply won't be able to say "this character is that rep (as opposed to some other rep)" conclusively.

There has to be space in our readings of books to be comfortable with this ambiguity, and there has to be a minimum good-faith acceptance that if someone says "that book was queer to me," even if the book isn't explicit queer and doesn't read queer to someone else... that doesn't change the nature of the queerness.

Some of y'all really need to accept that there's not only one way to read a book, and there never will be, and that's okay.

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Redraw of old art

Figured out how I wanna shade and draw certain textures! I've been overcomplicating it too much, but I think Imma stick to this simple stuff

the original:

The full series:

Part1 || Part2 || Part3 || Part4 || Part5 || Part6 || Part7 || Part8 || Part9 || Part10 || Part11 || Part 12 || Part13 || Part14 || Part15

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STAR TREK | Return To Tomorrow

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electroreception in monotremes is extremely old, 130 mya, and may have evolved to deal with hunting in the 3-6 month darks of the south pole forest.

echidnas may have evolved from a platypus like organism that became fully terrestrial, as evidenced by their flatter bill as embryos (and lack of echidna-like organisms in the fossil record past 2mya)

there was a 60 lb tree-climbing echidna in the pleistocene

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just discovered your art and oh my goodness it’s so pretty?? What?? so gorgeous……..

Omg thank you so much, here’s a special fishie for you!!! 🐟

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Early Civilization Wikipedia

Fire

Fire has been around for two weeks.

Contents

1 History

2 Types

3 Controversies

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The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

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So, what's actually happened in the last four days:

Realised I was having a mental health low

Bought some food that helps me through that (steak, berries, juice, fancy snacks like pork buns and big spring rolls)

Told family and a couple friends I wasn't well, mum and boyfriend have been particularly lovely

Removed all pressure to do things except what makes my life better right now

Cleaned the kitchen very well

Washed some clothes

Left the house three out of four days!

Got a dropout subscription

Completed my work that I'm at minimum required to do for my job (yes!!!!)

Booked in to see the doctor tomorrow (new doctor, but this one looks promising)

Started feeling better yesterday arvo and woke up cheerful today 😊

Today I'm going out in the arvo to see some friends, then I've just got the doctor tomorrow morning and the rest of the day to myself, and on Sunday it's dinner with dad. Hoping I've got the motivation to tidy my room up a bit cos that'd be good, but no drama if not

And next week I'm away for work still so I can do my fanfic stuff then if I want to. No need to force the writing mojo to come back now when there's other things to get up to

Might even play a video game, who knows ❤️❤️

I've got a lovely quiet day for myself today, but I'm torn about what to do.

There's a chance I have a lovely quiet week as well, and then next week I'm away for work so it'll be a lovely quiet week with no chores. But I'm still torn about what to do

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small but mighty...

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internet safety we were taught as kids: don't share ANY personal information with ANYONE EVER the british government: you don't want to give these random third parties your photo or driving licence showing your name, birthday, address and signature? are you perhaps a nonce?

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Mcspirk doodle (They’re gonna save/throw him)

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i love bones starts complaining the second he arrives back on the enterprise

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i'm not aro but i find it so annoying whenever i see a well-written, tight-knit friendship & people immediately jump to "they're dating/poly/qpr" like NO. they are FRIENDS. are we familiar with that concept? and it's getting to the point where i am genuinely afraid to write complex friendships because i don't want people to be like "oh this relationship is Too Meaningful to just be platonic" like no??? it's meaningful because it's platonic. ugh