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Sade Olutola
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
we're not kids anymore.
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Acquired Stardust
Misplaced Lens Cap
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Stranger Things
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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@artisimpossible
awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
I once said (in defense of the enemies to lovers trope), "You shouldn't just hate the trope because of times it's done badly. You should judge it by when it's done well."
And someone replied, "Okay, but literally any trope can be written well sometimes."
And like, yes??? You're right there??? The point is *right there*???
You don't have to actively fill your TBR with tropes you typically don't like, but judging entire books by a tropes list before you even read them is wild, and dismissing whole complex plotlines because they technically overlap with a trope you've disliked 10, 20, even 100 times is limiting. I've read tons of books where a romance was handled badly. Do I just stop reading everything with romance? I've read tons of books where texting was written badly. Should I reject all books featuring mobile phones? I've read tons of books where the dialogue was written badly. Guess I should stop reading books where people talk!
Part of the act of reading (or engaging with any fiction) is *seeking out stuff you like* which means also wading through the stuff you won't. It's not supposed to be an endless content mill of "5-star dopamine hit" after "5-star dopamine hit". It's supposed to be a stream of different experiences that all have their highs and lows, allowing you to parse what you like about some and what you dislike about others and explore parts of yourself in the process of finding that understanding.
So, yeah, there are tropes I also "hate", but that doesn't make them deal breakers. I'm not gonna stop engaging with an otherwise interesting story because one character accidentally gets pregnant. I'm not gonna reject a compelling dystopian novel because a trope map declares it's got "fated mates". The whole point of reading a book is to explore how it *deploys* these tropes, how it subverts them, extrapolates on them, rebuilds or regurgitates them. The tropes being in there tells you nothing until you actually see how they're used, and that process is the whole act of reading. So, no, you are not obligated to read tropes you don't want to read (or anything for that matter), but aren't you curious? Don't you wonder if this trope you hate *can* be done well and what that might look like?
my best writing advice *about* writing advice is that you absolutely do not have to follow all the popular advice you see BUT ☝️ you have to make sure you're not following it on purpose
"I understand why people give this advice and how it can benefit prose or narrative on a purely technical level, but have decided not to follow it" is a valid and very exciting way to approach the artform, but you can also only reach this point if you engage meaningfully with whatever the advice is first
"Is this bad advice or do I just not understand it?"
"Is this bad advice or has it just been dragged through so many blogs and reddit threads that the original point of the advice has been lost?"
It's called bodily autonomy, you douchebags, fucking let old people do what they want. I hope she died with her back blown out and absolutely blasted on her substance of choice.
Yeah, bodily autonomy and the dignity of risk and the fucking fact that if you're dying anyway, there's no benefit whatsoever to wasting your last hours of earthly existence in the bland beige walls of a nursing home or hospital and it should not only be allowed but offered as a service to bring the dead or dying (or not dying yet) person out into the world to enjoy those parts of it that aren't allowed inside the bland beige walls of a nursing home or hospital.
Let them be taken outside. Let them be taken home. Let them be taken to their favorite places. Let them use their substances of choice. Let them see their pets. Let them do really inadvisable bucket list items. Let them risk precipitating their deaths. Let them go out on their own terms, and also let them hang out on their own terms in the meantime.
Also, deschedule ALL drugs for people on hospice. "You can't do that, you might die" "I have some news for you about the existing situation." I mean come on.
(Minnesota recently passed a "happy hour" law allowing nursing home patients to drink alcohol. It's a good first step.)
Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught
*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish
Names that are normal for old people but weird when you're a baby:
Bartholomew
Dolores
Norman
Harold
Magnolia
Names that are normal for babies but weird when you're old:
Maddison
Tanner
Skylar
Mckenzie
Logan
Names that are normal for old people and normal for babies:
Elizabeth
Mary
Michael
Finnegan
Peter
Names that are weird when you're a baby and weird when you're old:
Radish
Kerosene
Australopithecus
Anthill
Hedgemony
Names that are weird when you're normal:
Balthazar
Romulus
Clandestia
Persephone
Kremulon
Names that are normal when you're weird:
Al
a good thread
More suggestions:
Tell a bookseller what books you like and ask for their recommendations
Look up the author and see what other books they've recommended, other authors they've paneled with, events they're doing, etc. and discover new books/authors that way
get familiar with genres, tropes, trends, etc.! Learn what books are aiming for so you can look up other books that aim to do the same things
Join a book club or other group space where people talk about books and take recommendations from others
Look up the book on any retailer site and look at the "readers also bought" or "other people liked" or "bookseller recommendations" etc. and just click around a bit. Follow them like a Wikipedia rabbit hole until you have a whole new list of books to read.
Go on Goodreads or Storygraph or something. Find reviewers who gave 5stars to your favorite books and check out other things they've read and enjoyed. If they have a blog, consider following it or at least reading their other posts.
*Post* about the book you like and let other people who like the book find and interact with you until you can all share recommendations with each other. It's a beautiful thing! Please try it!
Also, my personal favorite: stand in a bookstore paging through the book and wait until someone walks up to you and asks "are you a fan of [book]?" At which point you spend two hours talking and become friends and then you talk about other things you like and then you start going to similar events and introducing each other to cool new things and sharing more books. This has only happened to me once, but it was really cool and I hope to experience it again someday.
like to charge, reblog to cast.
I feel like . A lot of Being Autistic is giving people way too much benefit of the doubt cause you're trying not to have a social anxiety paranoia doom spiral but sometimes they really and truly just are treating you like that & you have to be the crazy one & be like I know you're fucking lying to me
Like oh yeah no it's not that I didn't notice. I've just been ignoring it. Yknow. Which somehow feels worse and stupider than if I really didn't know any better
This is true, but how I see it is "I'm giving this person the benefit of the doubt--not because they've earned it or because I'm too stupid to realize that they haven't earned it--but simply because I would rather not be the bad guy"
It's part of why the "even if you didn't mean it, the harm you caused still matters" rhetoric is so important. Like, this person is being an asshole. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren't doing it on purpose, but that's simply to be kind. I'm still not going to accept the behavior. I'm still not going to let it ruin me. I'm still going to let distance grow between shitty friends and break up with people who aren't showing me love the way I want to be loved and quit jobs where I don't feel respected. But I'm going to do all of that while still giving people the benefit of the doubt and assuming that they simply did it by accident, but that's on them, and if they can't mature enough to stop making these mistakes by accident, it really isn't my problem.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt means not assuming they're malicious when I can assume they're simply ignorant. It doesn't mean letting them get away with either or forcing myself to suffer through their shit behavior, though.
I wonder if being bullied as a kid has any inoculating factors? like "I can do this now, because I could do this at 4 feet tall" type stuff. or does it just permanently make you into a quivery little prey animal? much to consider.
oh yowch.
Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;
Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.
To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.
So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.
I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.
They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.
In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.
Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'
I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!
please reblog this until i find my true love. i am so alone
Made it poly friendly
oh hell yeah even better
Made one for aromantic trans people 👍
Reblogging for poly people, mono people, and people who need their keys
I wouldn’t wanna leave a trans polycule/ monogamy/ key chain incomplete
i lost my fucking keys
thanks that was really helpful
This comic works whether read vertically or horizontally
Add in an AI overview telling you how to do the exact opposite thing of what you’re looking for and this is perfect
next person i catch saying "umm actually this (male fictional character) is a bottom because hes PATHETIC 🤣" is getting an axe to the back of the head. explain to me why you think being sexually penetrated is an inherent demeaning act reserved only for those you see as weak without being misogynistic &/or homophobic. quickly
Something I've noticed is that the older I get and the more bullshit I put up with, the more I gravitate away from "jaded" characters and embrace grown adult characters who give in fully to whimsy and chase small joys and love with their whole hearts and forgive far too easily.
Fiction really tries to sell us that the difference between jaded and hopeful is life experience, but I actually think the most jaded people tend to be people who got burned once or twice and then cut themselves off from everything whereas the people who've been burned 5,000 times are still hopeful because they know they can get back up no matter what. They know love is even more beautiful when you know what it feels like to lose it. They know that the biggest obstacle to their own happiness is refusing to embrace it and that there's no age where you have to stop believing in magic if you learn how to make your own.
