#you're like

[ninyard]

went to work on the bee fic and then had a lightbulb for connecting up the second chapter of the jeremy fic and now im sitting here with 13k words of a chapter wondering if i should find a beta reader but can't do it because im scared of criticism and i know this draft is Messy

[sophsicle]

I just finished Thrown off the Ice after seeing your recommendation, and let me just….wow. I’m not sure when I’ll recover. So good—I’m aFfEctEd.

BRO RIGHT!!???? like you go in all "wow cute lil spicy romance with hockey boys" AND THEN YOU CRY FOR THE LAST HALF like goddamn i actually love Mike so much I can't bear it

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

⭐

[leonleonhart]

still my favorite emet-selch lore

[worselydrawnaranea]

aranea ur such a silly billy a little crinkly scrunkle bingus <333 /aff /p

also do you liek sandwiches ??

Awwwwwwww thank you ::::)

8ut if you want to give me a sandwich I already have one.

[mosylufanfic]

Hi! I hope you don't mind me asking, but your posts about Jane Austen's works have really gotten me curious about them. I have three questions: (1) What was the first novel you read? (2) What is your top pairing of all the novels? (3) What book do you recommend to start with Austen's works?

Ooooo, Jane Austen, one of my first fandoms (after Star Wars). I'll try to answer your questions in order.

The first novel I read was Pride and Prejudice, and actually, I had to take three cracks at it before I managed. My first try was at the age of 14, because my grandma (seeing me read giant stacks of Regency romance novels) told me that P&P was basically the original, so I gave it a shot. But the complex language defeated me (although I did get a few laughs out of the snarkiest bits) and I tapped out around the time of the Netherfield visit. I tried again at 16, feeling that if I was going to be Well Read I should read this book. I bounced off it again, right around the same place. (Nothing about that particular moment in the text, it was just about as much as I could wade through before I gave up.) The third time was required reading over the summer before an AP Lit class, and I watched the 1995 P&P with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle first. (To all the 2005 stans screaming, guys, this was in 1998 and I was watching on a VCR. I'm old, yo.) So I got all the plot points down, then read the book. And then I got it, why this book has been beloved for 200 years. Every time I re-read it, some new facet or interpretation makes itself known and I reaffirm that Jane Austen is a goddamn genius.

My top pairing wavers between my two favorite books. Sometimes it's Darcy/Elizabeth, and sometimes it's Anne/Wentworth (from Persuasion). Which is funny because Lizzie and Anne are such different people. But I love them.

I don't know if recommend is the right term. But a lot of people do read P&P first because it's the most famous, and there are the most adaptations etc out there. I'm not a purist about reading the book first, because the language is complex and the world they move in is very alien to modern readers. Which book you try first depends on what calls to you.

[amaiaqt]

congrats on 200 followers!! 🩷

mail received : KAT TYSM !!!!!

[lord-angelfish]

Not to get all sappy on main, but—raspberry/harlequin/lilac ❤️💚💜

RASPBERRY - I need your help to kill God.

YES dude I would love to, let's go on a quest about it

HARLEQUIN - To remind me that there are still people more insane than I am on this website

Hehe, thank you <3

LILAC - You make my dash better and I cherish you

🥺🥺😭💗💖 Thank you ilyt !!! Also, your blog is my favorite. Very very wonderful

[kaleidoskuls]

My dude I have now read that little Boreo snippet you posted an embarrassing amount of times I can’t 😭😭😭 if you ever finish it I will ABSOLUTELY be reading the shit out of it. You are so talented!! I love seeing you pop up on my dash and in my notifications! Wishing you gentle days ahead 💜💚💙

ohmy. gO D THIS US .??? SO NICE ??? WHY AM I JUST SEEINF IT😭😭 THANK YOU SO MUCH JON I–

this has given me the motivation i need to continue writing it thank you thank you 💙💛💚💜

[dredsina]

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

[eggsistential-breakdown]

Okay, but hear me out -- what if his parents weren't usually red and blue?

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[ganymedesclock]

I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.

My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[everchased]

THAT one's goin on the list too now!