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👀bad kids

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HAPPY PRIDE MAXWELL GOTCH 🌈🌈

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tabby two doors down

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not exactly the response Mabel was hoping for

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hey uhhh apparently another thing to add to the list of “human only” skills birds have: they can sew

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“the earth is flat” wrong. the earth is a tube, locked in an eternal dance with a second, eviler tube

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talking to people online is always like "i should watch that" "i should read that" "i should play that" there are so many things in the world. this is why i am never going to die

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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maybe this is a Hot Take or maybe not but i Desperately want comfrey macleod to be a Bad Person. i dont need her to be evil or a villain or anything, i just want her to be not a good person. i want her to be selfish and self centered and arrogant and rude. i want all of the crew to look at the ways she’s changed since they were windriders and how they’ve all changed since then realize that she changed for the worse, continuing on with all of this while they all changed for the better, finding new lives and then returning to the clouds with sky-eyed young adults who are bringing out new aspects of themselves, rather than staying in the same place forevermore like comfrey has.

i want her to be a bad person, so that the crew all sees that even though comfrey was their leader, she wasn’t what made their lives what they were, it was each other, it was the ship and the crew and the adventures and the family they made and that they’re remaking.

i want her to be a bad person so that they can see that settling down is not a cop out or a bad ending, it’s just what needs to happen sometimes, for your own good, which she hasn’t and won’t.

i want her to be a bad person so max and olethra to be able to see that family isn’t just blood. the legacy that olethra’s been chasing isn’t comfrey, its the zephyr and her crew, and the approval max so desperately wants doesn’t have to come from his dad who doesn’t know or understand him, the way comfrey doesn’t really know or understand her own family.

i don’t want comfrey to be evil, but i want her to be the complex person that brennan is building her into, and i want that person to be bad for the people that the crew have grown to be, so that they can see how much they’ve grown and how important they are to the story. cause they’re hunting her down, but the story isn’t about comfrey macleod. it’s about the crew.

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In a crazy mood (might start working on a fic that I haven’t touched since 2023)

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SEMIFINALS: Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Endorsement from submitter #1: "In an alternate London, boys born with violet eyes become Speakers, mediums who can communicate with the dead, and girls born with violet eyes become their wives. 16-year-old Silas Bell is desperate to avoid becoming another man's wife, but his attempts end with him institutionalised and diagnosed with 'Veil Sickness', a disorder turning violet-eyed girls mad. When the ghosts of former patients appear to beg him for help, he must solve the mystery of what, exactly, happens to everyone society throws away."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "T4T and autistic representation"

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.

After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.

Setting: Victorian London, 1883

Horror, historical fiction, gothic, fantasy, paranormal, Victorian, 1880s, young adult

Mrs. Victoria buys a Brothel by Talhí Briones

Endorsement from submitter #1: "A sapphic western where women help women (bury the body of your abusive husband.)"

Endorsement from submitter #2: "This is a story about women who age, gossip, drink, love, and help you hide the body of your dead husband."

1865, United States— It took thirty years and a dislocated arm for Victoria to leave her abusive husband. Heartbroken, she has to choose her own life over the hope of ever seeing her son again. She escapes the manor in the dead of night, only bringing with her a white wedding dress.

She ends up in Swainsburg, a minuscule town in Wyoming, where she’s adopted by the local prostitutes. To save them from expulsion, she buys the building and learns that in these parts, entertainment is worth more than gold. It’s almost easy, even fun, to organize piano recitals and cancan shows for the cowboys of the area, but being a Madam comes with responsibilities and dangers she isn’t ready to face. Her husband, after all, has contacts everywhere.

It’s hard to navigate the delicate tensions between respectable ladies and whores, between white society and the ‘others.’ Her new friends are women who carved their place in this merciless life; people who, like her, ended up in Swainsburg when they got tired of running.

Victoria falls in love. She doesn’t notice, she can’t even imagine the possibility. The townfolk say the widow Díaz is strange. Natane is actually incredibly awkward, kind, and very lonely. Victoria has no name for this burning friendship, but the feeling grows and demands to be acknowledged.

This is a story about women who age, gossip, drink, love, and help you hide the body of your dead husband.

Setting: Western; 1865 Wyoming

Historical fiction, Western, 1860s, adult

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my friend keeps the photo in their car as a good luck charm

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social experimnt

reblog this so it goes all over tumblr

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looks like the government is doing something about cults

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I know that lesbian is also a word that can refer to someone from the island of lesbos and when Herodotus says that a king “sent his lesbians” to do something he’s referring to soldiers from lesbos

but I can’t get the image out of my head of a king or general pointing at a city and yelling “go, my lesbians!” and then a bunch of gay women running in to burn it down

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”I’m gay” “I’m bisexual” yeah well I’m the saviour of the broken the beaten and the damned