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theonlydrewboo

RIP to the 13 Service men and women killed in Afghanistan this week.💔

hunterschaf

HUNTER SCHAFER by Xavier Scott Marshall for V Magazine (2020)

lilyjamessource

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different. - Lily James

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Victoria Pedretti as Love Quinn in You S02E04

thechekhov

The popularity of the slow burn fic trope in the LGBTQ community is a direct reflection of the persisting need to side-step every direct confrontation of your romantic/sexual feelings for the sake of your own survival. This coping tactic of avoidance of clear communication, although hindering, becomes familiar and homely when it is continuously associated with stories we ourselves relate to and reflects our own experience of never feeling safe enough to fearlessly barge into relationships. In this essay I will

cryptiboy

hey op this is a really hot take but you’re right and you should scream it

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Slow burn fics take the background trauma of our lives, where our need to hold back and hide our feelings and avoid direct communication inevitably led to a sense of missing out, either by losing out on time to be your whole and complete self with the person you love or by delaying and avoiding until it’s too late and they’ve met someone else or passed away, and soften it into something sweet and romantic. Slow burn fics take some of the worst and hardest parts of our romantic lives and offer it back to us with the eventual but guaranteed happy ending that we want so desperately for ourselves but that we so rarely and painfully receive in real life.