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When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

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I'm rewatching Hellsing while I write today. It's my first time since I was a teenager. And suddenly a lot about my love of writing vampires, Catholicism, religious angst, paramilitary nonsense and the BRITISH makes sense.

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one of the most enduringly obnoxious things about algorithmic feeds is that there is genuinely no amount of blocking and tailoring and "not interested in this" and "show me less content like this" that will ever ever convince the algorithm that you don't want to be shown content promoting weight loss

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Checkpoint

Are you having fun? Do you want to keep scrolling or are you just on autopilot?

Have you eaten today?

Have you consumed water today?

Do you need to go to the bathroom?

Have you slept recently?

Do you have any chores in process that you've forgotten about or are putting off? (Laundry that needs taken out of the machine, a dishwasher full of dishes that need put away, etc.)

Have you taken all your meds?

If the answer is "All good," feel free to keep scrolling!

But if any of these reminded you of something you need to do, please take care of yourself. 💕

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My friends like to point out when I'm writing smut fic that I always have one of the smutees lock the door. It makes me so anxious when these idiots aren't shutting the goddamn door!

Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"

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This also means feeding someone's writing into that theft machine in order to train stupid character AI roleplay bots.

This isn't flattery, this isn't friendship or support. This is serial killer behaviour, taking a grim trophy of something you are obsessed with because you want to own it in the most destructive way possible.

If you think this is normal please I beg you to stop and actually think how this affects writers. No one wants to create for people like you.

This is the worst timeline. (x)

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Many moons ago some terf posted a cis bottom's post (thinking he was a trans woman) saying "You are not breedable, you are a gay man with an anus"

Me and my trans male friends quote this to one another more often than is healthy. I spend a ridiculous about of my time having this conversation.

i somehow ended up on bottom trans guy tiktok, and like don’t get me wrong, whatever you fuck with and whatever feels good is awesome, you do you. but all i can think about whenever i see one of the videos is the omegaverse. specifically, “in a world where some men are built to be fucked, i imagine god was also merciful enough to grant them a self lubricating hole” bounces around echoing in my head like the fucking bells of notre dame. ‘i love being a trans bottom bc i was built for this.’ that’s awesome. i love that for you. however. omega 🫵

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WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

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reverse gatekeeping. please, i will pay you if you use my gate. It's such a lovely gate and look at all the lovely stuff on the other side.

reverse gatekeeping. I am on my knees begging people to engage with the source material

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Catholic Omegaverse is truly one of my special interests https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYhUnT8/

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Posted by Steven Payne to Facebook group British Medieval History:

People in the Middle Ages valued sweet smelling breath and bodies, seeing them as desirable, so there is a great deal of evidence from the period of tooth pastes, powders and deodorants. Contrary to the typical Hollywood depiction of medieval peasants with blackened and rotting teeth, the average person had teeth which were in fairly good condition, mainly due to the rarity of sugar in the diet. Most medieval people could not afford sugar and those who could used it sparingly. Archaeological data shows that only 20% of teeth had signs of decay, as opposed to 90% in the early twentieth century. The main dental problem for medieval people was not decay but wear, due to a high content of grit in the main staple, bread. For deodorants, soap was available for the wealthy, but a variety of herbs and other preparations were also used. Soapwort is a plant native to Europe and Asia which, when soaked in water, produces an effective liquid soap. Mint, cloves and thyme were also extensively used by simply rubbing into the skin, and alum (hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate) was an effective deodorant. I am trying to keep to 14th century technology on my pilgrimage to Canterbury, which gives me various options when looking at hygiene. In the middle ages people generally cleaned their teeth by rubbing them and their gums with a rough linen cloth, or the chewed end of a stick. There are various recipes for pastes and powders that could be put on the cloth to help clean the teeth, but I have chosen simple salt to whiten them and to aid fresh breath. I will also be using the stick method, and will be taking along a supply of liquorice root sticks for that purpose. I also have a few blocks of alum, which when rubbed into wet skin has a deodorising effect. Alum, like beeswax, was used extensively in the middle ages for a variety of purposes, also being useful: * in the purification of drinking water as a flocculant * as a styptic to stop bleeding from minor cuts * as a pickling agent to help keep pickles crisp * as a flame retardant * as an ingredient in modelling clay * as an ingredient in cosmetics and skin whiteners * as an ingredient in some brands of toothpaste The photograph shows my wash kit including home made olive oil soap, salt for the teeth, a block of deodorising alum, cloves, a boxwood comb made for me by Peter Crossman of Crossman Crafts and some liquorice root sticks, all on a woollen ‘towel’. Note that the cloves are kept in a ventilated box….this is because insects hate the smell of cloves and so a perforated box will keep them out of my kit and food bag when I am sleeping rough. TIP: If you steep some cloves to obtain the oil and put the liquid around the doors and windows of your house, it keeps spiders and insects out.

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some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

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Casually rewatching My Hero Academia while I'm getting on with some busywork. I swear some omegas are just out there flaunting it these days.

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You should write the most niche, indulgent fiction that appeals to you specifically, because it will be much more artistically authentic and valuable than corporate slop that has been focus tested to death to appeal to the widest audience possible.

Write for yourself and you will always be making authentic art that has an uncompromised vision, and you will gain an audience that appreciates that.

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"i'm tired of seeing-" use your filters.

"but there was an icky ship-!" use your filters.

"i don't like that tag-" use your filters.

don't like what you're seeing? use. your. filters.