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A makeup loving, romance reading, K-drama watching, #BTS lusting Black woman who is a single mom, #YALibrarian, and sex positive feminist. #NoonaARMY #BLM #TransLivesMatter

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Rakuten Viki To Launch First-Ever International K-Drama Day On November 29

Calling all K-drama fans! Rakuten Viki, the leading destination for Asian dramas and movies, is set to host the first-ever worldwide celebration of Korean dramas with International K-Drama Day. Taking place on November 29, the holiday aims to recognize the fandom and exponentially rising mass appeal of the genre that has dominated popular culture. To

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw (1957)

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Red, White and Royal Blue (2023) + tweets

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Dog said oops

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Cat was talking big mess and that dog said "you thought."

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Original Character(s), Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Original Female Character(s), jung hoseok| J-hope/original female characters of color Characters: Jung Hoseok | J-Hope Additional Tags: Reunited and It Feels So Good, new year's eve 2022, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Fluff and Smut, Porn Without Plot, Rimming, Facials, Sarcasm, Hand Jobs, Shower Sex Series: Part 9 of Fuck Boi Summer with the Bangtan Boys Summary:

During one his final live performances in the United States, J-Hope hooks up with an old acquaintance.

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The New Year's ball won't be the only thing dropping in Times Square.

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Love in the Big City

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park My rating: 3 of 5 stars I believe not being from South Korea or thoroughly enmeshed in their culture is a detriment when trying to read this book. An understanding of the South Korean prior to it's democratization and it's homophobia would have made it easier for me to engage with the stories. Love in the Big City reads like an oral history, where the narrator jumps throughout periods of his life as present memories remind him of the past. Each vignette is intriguing but they never come to a conclusion. The narrator is self-aware enough to realize that he is deeply traumatized by his abusive mother and internalized homophobia, but doesn't seem self-aware enough to actually get himself some help. I wanted to like this book but it left a sour taste in my mouth especially when it is (view spoiler)[revealed that the main character has AIDS. (hide spoiler)] There really is no love in this book for the main character who seems to be punished over and over again just for being gay. View all my reviews

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Barbie vs the Bringer of Death

My 16-year-old and 18-year-old kids have been excited to see the Barbie movie since it was announced whereas I wasn’t interested. I am not a fan of Greta Gerwig films, but a trailer released in June drew me into a pink frenzy. It looked funny, and who can resist the charms of a genuine American (and, arguably feminist) icon. Barbie was being pitted against another American icon, J. Robert Oppenhemier, father of the atomic bomb. 

Oppenheimer is a biopic about the (in)famous physicist by highly lauded director Christopher Nolan. Both films were scheduled for a July 21st release. As the date neared, entertainment outlets and social media accounts were flooded with posts asking “What are you seeing, Barbie or Oppenheimer?” Conversations about Barbie and Oppenheimer became split down gender lines, and, in typical social media gender war fashion, everyone became defensive--Team Barbie vs Team Oppenheimer. 

Hyped for one of Nolan’s cinematic masterpieces, I saw Oppenheimer on opening day. Equally hyped for Ryan Gosling’s abs and Margot Robbie’s comedic timing, I saw Barbie the next day. Both films are good in their own ways. Because of the current state of cultural discourse in the United States, both films received some controversy. Barbie was accused of being too feminist and anti-men, and Oppenheimer was accused of glorifying the harming of Indigenous Americans and stealing their land. 

Personally, I felt that Barbie had the right amount of feminist rhetoric for a movie celebrating a doll that tells girls that any career is open to them. I think the criticisms of being anti-men are overstated by those that don’t understand that the men in the movie’s Barbie Land are supposed to represent women’s marginalized positions in our real society. Oppenheimer did briefly address the harm their testing could/did cause and the government’s theft of the land. As a person who was not impacted by the Manhattan Project (aside growing up in the Cold War), I cannot say if Nolan addressed the devastation adequately enough.

Let me know which movie you saw, Barbie, Oppenheimer or both.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Original Character(s), Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Original Female Character(s), jung hoseok| J-hope/original female characters of color Characters: Jung Hoseok | J-Hope Additional Tags: Reunited and It Feels So Good, new year's eve 2022, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Fluff and Smut, Oral Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Masturbation in Bathroom Series: Part 9 of Fuck Boi Summer with the Bangtan Boys Summary: During one his final live performances in the United States, J-Hope hooks up with an old acquaintance. Or the New Year's ball won't be the only thing dropping in Times Square.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Seesaw Steadies (A Chaste Yoonmin Fan Fic Drabble) (931 words) by brooklynshoebabe Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Min Yoongi | Suga/Park Jimin Characters: Park Jimin (BTS), Min Yoongi | Suga Summary:

During the United States' leg of Agust D's D-Day Tour, the ever supportive Jimin decides to shoot his shot with Yoongi, again.

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The former young lovers are now grown men and ready to try love again.

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Book Bans Affect Everybody — Here’s How You Can Help

I have been a librarian for more than a decade, and a school librarian for nearly half of that. I didn’t get into this field to wage a war against a political system that has declared me the enemy.…

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kim Namjoon | RM/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Kim Namjoon | RM, Kim Seokjin | Jin, Original Female Characters, Original Black Female Character, Original Female Character(s) of Color, Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: Pining, Long Distance Relationship, Military Service, ambw, bwam, everyone is bad at feelings, Namjoon Is Bad at Feelings, Sexy memories, Outdoor Sex, Phone Sex, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, military bound namjoon, military bound rm, Kissing, Dirty Talk, Dirty Thoughts, Fluff and Smut Series: Part 8 of Fuck Boi Summer with the Bangtan Boys Summary:

Namjoon thinks too much about his life choices especially when it comes to his lady-in-waiting, Nyla.

In other words, Namjoon wishes he put a ring on it before he started his military service.

Actually, he wishes he could have had Nyla sit on his face the day before he is sworn in.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 7/?

Chapter 7: Week 3, Day 1, part 2: For the Males’ Gaze

Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Park Jimin (BTS)/Original Female Character(s), Kim Namjoon | RM/Original Female Character(s), bts/original female characters of color, Kim Seokjin | Jin & Original Female Character(s), Min Yoongi | Suga/Original Female Character(s), Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Original Female Character(s), Kim Taehyung/Original Female Character, Jeon Jungkook/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Bang Shihyuk, Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook, Original Female Character(s) of Color Additional Tags: Harem, male escorts, rent a dates, in the soop but with sex, Some Plot, Sex workers, bts are sex workers, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Stripping, Light BDSM, Light Voyeurism, No Romance, Comfort No Hurt, Cuddling & Snuggling, Naked Cuddling

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Kecia Wahl is everyone's rock. She's the one that everyone leans on from family to friend to lovers to co-workers. Kecia is tired and burnt out, and needs someone to take care of her. When she's gifted with an all-expenses paid, exclusive summer getaway to The Magic Shop, she gets a little bit more than just rest and relaxation.

Chapter 7: Week 3, Day 1, part 2: For the Males’ Gaze

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Dean Winchester Appreciation Week 2023 | Personality trait | I love that Dean is such a smartass 🤣

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I've been rewatching Supernatural from the beginning with my 17-year-old kiddo and I forgot how much I love, love, love, LOVED this show. I even went back to my Pinterest board dedicated to Supernatural. It's nice to know that even as I discover new things to fangirl over, I won't lose the love I have for my old fandoms.

Since 1999, I've been a hardcore fan girl of Ricky Martin, Hugh Jackman/The Boy from Oz musical, Supernatural and BTS. I still have Ricky Martin, Hugh Jackman, and Supernatural posters hanging up in my apartment. If I were to get a Supernatural tattoo it would simply be "Team Free Will" on my left upper arm. (I currently have the Love Yourself line heart and the lyrics tattooed on my right forearm and have plans of getting the LYS flower tattooed on my right upper arm with the lyrics from RM's Still Life written above it.)