#replying to replies

[pechebeche]

im really sorry to do this @i-am-gaaaayyy-heeeyyyy but the truth must be known. i give kokichi

PIEDMON

I could also see him with Jokermon, but Piedmon is the more recognizable of the two. Maybe the rest of DICE has Jokermons. The Joker must be a part of Kokichi's team on god

[roosterbox]

@5ftjewishcactus

Right? Now I need a When Harry Met Sally AU (“When Eddie Met Steve,” lol) where Robin and Nancy play their best friends who also fall in love, but are wayyyyyy more normal about it than Steddie.

That’s another great subgenre: Steddie fics where the side pairings (Ronance, Jargyle, Jancy, Byler, etc.) are so beautifully normal, it really highlights how fucking ridiculous these two silly boys are.

[somerandomrabbid]

@maybeiwasntthere2 has got to be the most ominous request i've ever recieved, I can't even tell if you mean actual dancing or fighting /lh /silly

but either way

I'm bracing myself /silly

[thekatebridgerton]

Ok polin spam over. Time to go back to the reply fest. Today's category of replies will be *drum rolls* Bridgerton aus.

Let's see how many au related asks I can answer today

[jay-justjay]

DAAAAAMN RIGHT IT IS! FUCK YEAH CANT WAIT TO GET OUT THE VAN!

[venusssssssssss]

legit so annoyed about the way the corporate media wants to paint those women waiting outside the court as crazy and as only being there because Luigi is hot. I looked up pictures of them outside the court and they all held signs and were there to send a message: "health over wealth", "denial of medical care = violence", "murder for profit = terrorism", "the United States healthcare stole my livelihood", "insurance lobbyists line politicians' pockets", "healthcare reform NOW". Yeah, they're there because he's hot for sure. Also, there were a lot of men as well but hey, that's not helping the narrative right?

[alfea]

spin this wheel of hobbies

[eruden-writes]

Replying to Reactions - Strictly Pleasure Pt 17

If you haven't seen it, Strictly Pleasure Pt. 17 has been available!

@deltoroist

Thank you so much! I like to explore all the emotive aspects of sex, too. Sometimes, I feel like more mainstream smut (like stuff that goes through a traditional publisher) makes everything so sweet and almost insta-lovey without touching deeper places in a relationship.

Either way, I'm glad my writing came off as hot and wholesome!

@rhainakincaid

Between Artuk and Travis, Heidi has been stuck in unhealthy or outright abusive relationships for most of her adult life. She's still working through those feelings.

Being a mom, feeling judged, and now going to court makes a person feel like all of their moves are being watched and how that reflects to the greater society.

She feels bad for wanting sex when she has "bigger things to be focused on" as a mother.

@missnargaluna

Yeeeeeeee!

@secret-fic-stash

I'm sorry for making you rabid? lol

Yes, it took them a very long time to have sex, despite working in a sex shop. That was actually intentional on my part. 😈

I'm glad it had the effect I hoped for.

[dragongirltongue]

Circle avatars were a mistake

[limelemonchi]

freak Pines

[roosterbox]

@ikeracity

Ike ❤️😭 Thank you for saying so!

Even if those posts get only one or two notes, I’m taking that as a sign that someone enjoyed it. Whether it was a fic they knew and loved before, or they were discovering it for the first time. Or, very rarely, the author found it (which… 😳🫣). If anything I said about any of the fics encouraged people to read them, that’s the important part.

No matter what, I was glad to do them. Even more glad to be able to keep a consistent posting schedule for an entire year, lmao.

Definitely gonna try to start doing them again eventually.

[flamingo-bubbles]

Hey, I hope you're doing well! Just wanted to say I think about you every so often and wonder how life's treating you ^^)

Oh! Hi! :D

Hehe, it's very sweet of you to check in! Life has changed a lot for me in the past few years - moved back to the States, moved in with my girlfriend, married said girlfriend, bought a house, got a dog - but they've been changes for the better and life has been treating me well!

I hope things are going well for you too! :>

[thekatebridgerton]

So as you may have realized, I haven’t been posting that frequently in a while, mostly because my handy dandy updated job schedule that leaves me very little free time. But I’m still here, don’t worry.

However low posting frequency also means I have been accumulating asks since April and the inbox has gotten big. I usually try not to have so much backlog of asks because it really messes with the cross referencing of old posts and new ones but now I have 50 unanswered asks and 8 pages worth of words. That’s the longest document I’ve had in only asks. So I’m going to be answering them over the next couple of days. This means that my inbox is temporarily disabled until I am down to 0 once again.

I’ll try to answer them all by order of similarity, that way I have to cross reference to previous posts a lot less and they’ll be all in just one place when I come back in the future to pick up a thread. So let the reply fest begin I guess

But that’s the tea

[pangur-and-grim]

I never know how to respond to these emails

[theabigailthorn]

What are we supposed to do now? By ‘we’ I mean UK based trans women and transfems. How are we meant to continue? Knowing the country hates us. The law refuses to accept our existence. Everyone wishes we would just shut up and disappear. How are we supposed to live like this? I know I can’t.

Let me tell you a very funny story that might make you feel better.

Not long ago I called the suicide hotline feeling exactly the way you describe. The volunteer on the other end was an older cis lady, and I was like, "Hey, I'm trans - all this stuff is happening, the government says blah blah blah, the court says XYZ, and I feel like I'm living in this really hostile country that hates me, and it sucks!" I told her how angry I was, how much all this makes me hate by fellow human beings, how much I wouldn't care if Britain sank into the sea or was burned away to ashes along with all its inhabitants, and how ashamed I am of feeling such venom and cynicism.

And there was a bit of a pause.

And the volunteer lady says, "What's trans?"

I - Joker makeup bursting from the pores of my face - explain to her what being transgender is. She has questions like, "So, what was the legal process like, what do you have to do?" and I'm like "Oh HO HO HO! Let me tell you the hoops I had to jump through!" and she's like "Wow, that sounds so difficult?" and I'm like, "HEE HEE HEE I haven't even gotten to the difficult bit yet!" I'm ranting, I'm pacing my living room like a tiger, quoting Merchant of Venice and Coriolanus down the phone to this woman on the suicide hotline, like "If you prick us do we not bleed?! If you tickle us do we not laugh?!" "I banish you, and here remain with your uncertainty!" (She's like "I remember this Shakespeare from school!") It feels like I'm vomiting up this black sludge of hate that I've built up, like people spit on me and I've absorbed all that spit and now I'm burning with it.

So at the end of all this the volunteer lady's like well yeah of course you feel angry, that makes perfect sense! Anybody with a heart would feel the way you do! Of course you feel cynical and bitter and despairing! And she tells me that she hasn't seen any of this, but it's shocked her. She thinks this court case sounds like a really backwards step; she thought Britain was progressive. And I'm like, "I used to think that too, and the loss of that illusion hurts."

But then she goes well look - these judges and politicians, they live in a bubble. They don't really know what life is like for ordinary people like me and you. There are plenty of people in Britain like her, who just don't really pay attention to this stuff. There might be some who throw things at me in the street and treat me poorly, but there are also a lot of people who are just... normal? And fine? And who are just doing their own thing, and who are appalled to discover this kind of thing is happening? And I'm like oh yeah - I guess if the country was destroyed all those people would go too... It's not true that everyone wants us to disappear.

And she says she's going to go home and look all of this up because it sounds like trans people are really being mistreated, and she's like "Thank you for telling me all this. I hope you feel better."

And I'm like yeah you know what, I kinda do. It helped to have someone else go, "I understand how you feel." So, y'know, we've got one more ally at least.