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I just saw a post that deeply annoyed me because it went, "Here's a story that's like a Regency romance, but I FIXED it by making the characters sexually liberated and shame-free and polyamorous!"

This is like saying, "Here's a story that's like a thriller, but I FIXED it by having the serial killer go to therapy instead of trapping victims in his evil maze and dismembering them."

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The thing a lot of people don't seem to get is that the entire appeal of a Regency romance is watching a deeply repressed, perfectly controlled, buttoned up, straight-laced person who has never expressed an emotion before fall so hard for someone that something in them just breaks and they come completely unhinged.

It's a very specific kink that this genre is tapping into.

People who think the characters in a Regency novel are boring are missing the whole point. The characters are supposed to be boring, right up until they fall so madly in love that it drives them insane, at which point they become very interesting. Regency romance novelists are doing the writing equivalent of putting plain white featureless uncooked whole eggs in a microwave and waiting for them to explode.

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I love how I've written quick notes for my dissertation and now that I'm going through them again I find gems like these:

Satusetä-Sakari had creepypasta-phase when he was 15, human nature never changes.

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It’s Not a Plot Hole, It’s Foreshadowing

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It’s Not a Plot Hole, It’s Just Something That They Opted Not to Spoon-feed You Because It Would Be Obvious If You Thought About It For 20 Seconds

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It May Be a Plot Hole, But It Still Works In Terms of the Story’s Themes and Character Logic

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Okay, It Is a Plot Hole, What Are You Going to Do, Cry about It?

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Kimaiz timelapse

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Dot Bomb 💣

Very old vector art

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I present. One of my favorite videos of all time.

(English translation)

I’m in the park with Henkka- oh look a hedgehog

Had some pizza with the guys- oh look a hedgehog

Gonna get this trash out of the way- hey sorry hedgehog?

My shoelaces are a bit tight- oh look a hedgehog

You have any beers- oh look a hedgehog

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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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good homestuck ending: the curtains close on act 1. we pan back to reveal DAD, all the coding and development files for sburb in his secret basement study, an industrial crate of smoke pellets he used to craft a harmless meteor, having successfully pulled off the ultimate birthday prank on his son

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people are so mean about horror movie victims like. sorry but if i had gone to a cabin in the woods with my friends as a teenager you couldn't have stopped us from reading aloud from the evil tome. how were they supposed to know the ancient curse was real they're like 17

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Honestly there's nothing a child can do in public that's as much of a disturbance as an adult yelling at them

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Kimaiz

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There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

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