kira // 28 //🇨🇦 // disaster lesbian // she/her // writer, sometimes // neurodivergent // currently posting about: House M.D., my ongoing read of asoiaf, and various other nonsense // writing blog: scytheswrites
#scythes rambles - general rambling from yours truly
#scythes reads - book stuff, what i'm reading/have read (see also: #scythes reads asoiaf for current reading of asoiaf)
#malpractice md posting - house m.d. nonsense I don't feel like maintagging, may include hot takes or occasional bitching
#scythes writes - tag for general writing rambling but also where i will put any fics i post (rare)
#scythes music tag - posts about my music interests
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probably time I post an actual about-me post so here it goes:
Basic Info:
Kira, a late-20s disaster lesbian (she/her), Canadian
ADHD & mood disorders aplenty
I’m a writer, I have a college diploma in Professional Writing, and I will occasionally ramble about my writing (but rarely post any actual writing) - writing blog is @scytheswrites
My interests/hyperfixations change fairly regularly and I have no interest in creating individual blogs for each of my fandoms, so this blog is very much multi-fandom (but I always tag my fandom posts respectively for filtering purposes)
Current Interests/Fandoms/Hyperfixations:
House M.D. (multiship hell but nuts about camchase, ambteen, dipping into cuddley. I love all of the house ladies but primarily Thirteen and Cameron, accepting my fate as a Cameron Guy)
Currently reading: ASOIAF
Longtime Interests/Fandoms:
Games: Dragon Age, Soulsbornes & Elden RIng, Fire Emblem, BG3, Zero Escape trilogy
Marvel (MCU and comics, haven’t seen all of the recent MCU content though)
Music: my taste is all over the place but my lifelong favorite artist is Paramore (late 2000s-early 2010s emo kid here), but i listen to all sorts of pop, alt, metal, k-pop, etc etc
Books: Faves are The Locked Tomb series, The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy, The Priory of the Orange Tree, & the Iron Widow series.
Ancient Interests/Fandoms (My Lore):
Twilight (I will still occasionally shitpost about Twilight)
Superwholock (but primarily Doctor Who, which will forever be in my heart and on my mind)
Carmilla (web series)
Orphan Black
I’ll update this info post as needed, DMs and Asks are always open!
The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?
I was dreaming abt cc13 hurt/comfort when I took a nap and I’m convinced it’s because 3-way by the lonely island came up on my TikTok and I thought about Them
I was dreaming abt cc13 hurt/comfort when I took a nap and I’m convinced it’s because 3-way by the lonely island came up on my TikTok and I thought about Them
like I think it is good and important to be able to criticise porn and erotica for the relationship to the political environment/context of creation etc, but I think that’s not too different from criticising any other art on these grounds. how is the erotica speaking to conventions of the genre? what is the author trying to tell you in what they hold up as attractive? what might the author be saying that they’re not necessarily aware that they’re saying? how does the narrative relate to other dominant cultural narratives? these are all valuable questions to ask and can be answered in nuanced ways that do not involve kink-shaming & do not involve calling people degenerate perverts. yknow.
something I read the other day had a storyline that involved a woman being kidnapped by foreign “disgusting perverts” (<- not supposed to be sexy) so that she could then be rescued by an army general (<- sexy) who had to fuck her as part of the rescue. now it’s no bother to me if someone else gets their rocks off to that, power to them. that said, we can criticise the framing of Woman Ending Up In Sex Trafficking Requires An Army Man To Fuck Her To Safety in the same way we would criticise similar framing in non-erotic contexts. how is this serving the image of the benevolent military? how is it feeding into the white woman’s fear of the other? what is being held up as ‘perverted’ in its juxtaposition to ‘sexy’? etc etc. this was bad erotica but it was also pro-military propaganda and that does mean something
90% of the drama on this stupid website can be attributed to the fact that there is a large group of people on here who are extremely mentally unwell and refuse to do the work to recover or better themselves in any way
i’ve come to the conclusion that the anti-recovery people have made their pain a large part of their identity and don’t want to let it go because it would be like destroying the self
