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behind the scenes photos taken moments before disaster (shannen ran into the location owner’s car)

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Love how Mr Darcy's big act of service was tracking down Lydia, and Mr. Thornton's big act is engaging in romantic and blatant police corruption

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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In retrospective, benedick "i fear nothing" hobbes getting his shit rocked in wellington and not saying a thing about it hurts so bad and is beautiful understated tcw storytelling.

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I've had a lot of conversations lately about what's lacking in cosy fantasy and romantasy, and the general consensus is that it boils down to being written like fanfiction.

Fanfiction is an entirely different beast than published fiction. Your reader is already invested in the characters, and you don't need to sell them on anything to get them to read it. And that's great! That's the beauty of fanfiction! You should write that if it is your true passion!

Cosy fantasy and romantasy that has no fucking plot whatsoever argh often skips the step of getting you invested in the characters. You're already supposed to be into the "hot mysterious baddie" trope, therefore there's no effort being made to make you interested in this particular hot dude. Female leads are interchangeable. What were they like growing up? What are their morals? Who cares, let them fuck.

Don't get me started on DnD-lite books that rely on you being familiar with DnD to do the world-building for you. First of all, this is boring as all hell. If you're not willing to world-build, you're not going to give us a good story. Second of all, DnD can be a great world-builder, and everyone not taking advantage of that is just being lazy. If you have orcs in your damn book, I want you to tell me what that means. I shouldn't have to flip through a source book to understand the conflict you're setting up goddamnit!

And listen, you can say queer cosy fantasy/romantasy fixes this problem, and I can promise you it doesn't. Some of it is better, but the vast majority is still written for tropes and nothing more. Please, I am begging you, you need more than tropes to write a good book. You need to actually convince us, the reader, to care about these characters as much as you do. That means letting them make mistakes. That means they have to have real problems that aren't solved by the power of love, but by confronting their own flaws. You cannot do this if your characters don't actually have flaws.

I cannot wait for this trend to die.

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web series +  trans representation: trans women

[the uncanny upshurs, the adventures of serena berg, hamlet the dame, the soliloquies of santiago]

made possible by @frankieprices‘ list of lgbt+ web series characters [x]

[full lgbtq+ representation gif series]

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The character of the day is Annie Balkans from All Or Nothing

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damn, I just got reminded of Literary inspired webseries, and thinking of all my favourites, I realized why Public History stands out for me so much. It's so sad it came out in a time when many people had stopped caring about webseries and the fandom had mostly dispersed due to drama and discourse. But Public History?? It really is the peak of that genre.

following the liw trend back to its beginnings with the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, you could really watch a whole new genre evolve and grow. creators taking classics and translating them into a modern setting, finding reasons why vlogging would make sense for them, and how to justify that even dramatic, private moments are put on the internet. Experimenting with the format, telling a story from multiple perspectives, sometimes even via social media. then, with shows like nmtd and call me Katie, slowly realising you were allowed to put queer characters in there, not just in a throwaway mention in the background, but front and center. realising that sometimes, it's not just 'diversity' to cast actors of colour, but it makes a story make more sense in a modern setting, like with Project Green Gables.

And Public History (a David Copperfield webseries) is the culmination of all of that. Everything creators learned about how to make compelling webseries comes together in that show. You have an incredibly diverse cast, where the casting choices feel genuine and make sense for the story. same goes for the queer representation - the lesbian, the gay, the bi, trans, polyamorous storylines. they are deeply rooted in the source material, woven effortlessly into the story, showing that they've always belonged there. there's a deep understanding for the story in general and the ways you can modernise a classic. the way it's told understands its format so perfectly.

I'm still sad that the fandom around that time was so small and that this show never got quite the attention it deserved. So, if you ever feel nostalgic about that good old webseries era, all I'm saying is. give Public History a try.

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why would you ever outsource fun to chatgpt? are you stupid? you can make mediocre shit by yourself too.

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true 2000′s nonsense was finding an amv with a cool song and revisiting the amv for the song instead of actually looking it up

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Bsky post by libro.fm: Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Fuck Amazon. Go to bookshop.org or better yet, take a little time on Saturday to visit your local indie bookstore.

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let's hear it for the nonbinary folks who:

don't present androgynously

use "binary" pronouns in any capacity

identify partially with a binary gender

have a "gendered" name

don't experience body dysmorphia

don't experience gender dysphoria

DO experience gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia but aren't sure what gender or body would suit them

just experience body/gender apathy instead

can't be open about their gender identity yet

you're all absolutely valid.

don't ever feel like you're "not nonbinary enough" because you absolutely are! 💖

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The character of the day is Dot Brooke from Middlemarch: The Series

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April 18, 2016

#TAJWASH10

Celebrate ten years of "The Adventures of Jamie Watson (and Sherlock Holmes)" with a look back on the entire series as we reshare every episode and social media post.

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so apparently since ANOTHER wlw was killed off by a popular “feminist” TV show…

here is my list of free-to-watch queer webseries with happy endings, most of which have wlw as main characters/pairings. 

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YOU 🫵🏻 read this webcomic that's been bouncing around my brain like pong it's really funny and cute