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Emma. Any/all.

[acertainknot]

“If we lived in a culture with a higher tolerance for ambiguity, rather than obsession with measurement, fixed identity, and knowability, transition wouldn’t be so confounding to people, and the process might be more normal. Epistemologically, we are anal retentive. Not rigorous, just stressed out. We need to know what a trans girl is. What are you, trans people get asked. Where are you from, people of colour get asked. White supremacist capitalism wants to make a map of everything, and then monetize the ways that things move around the map. Basically literally. The museum.”

— Baer, H., 2022. Trans Girl Suicide Museum. Los Angeles: Hesse Press. pp. 131-132.

[votsalot]

god gives the hardest battles to his most duplicitious sluts

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

episode one of the dr. who revival was absolutely balls to the walls. some exec was probably like let’s do something normal that kids and adults will love! and mister russell t davies was like get that shit out of my face immediately. we’re doing an episode on a sentient pile of goo, bad cgi lightning, evil garbage cans, and mannequins with guns, or we riot

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

episode TWO of the dr. who revival was absolutely balls to the walls. some exec was probably like okay NOW let’s do something normal that kids and adults will love! and mister russell t davies was like i thought i told you to get that shit out of my face. we’re doing an episode on a sexy tree lady, an evil flap of skin, toxic by britney spears, handholding, and the inevitable fiery doom of planet earth, or we riot

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

saw an ant on the bus today, what a horrible fate. moved an unfathomable distance from everything you've ever known because of forces you could never possibly understand. no matter how long you follow the pheromone trail you laid you'll never find your way home.

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

Did the spider that made a web in my cars mirror survive being barreled down the highway at light speed? Can insects feel fear in a way we understand? If I think too hard about this I start wondering if this is what the other side of a lovecraftian story looks like. An ant lost on the bus.

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

Don't you dare do this to me

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

>:3c

[greysfields]

to all the queer kids who have parents who aren't openly homophobic but still not Nice about their queerness. Its okay to feel mad about it. Just because you're in a physically safe place doesn't mean that it can't be frustrating and heartbreaking to not be accepted. to feel like you have to shove yourself into a box to be loved. your feelings are valid. you deserve all the proud acceptance in the world

[valtsv]

i know we've all been warned that art is the biggest snitch but no one tells you that reading your own writing will make you realize things about yourself that you wouldn't confess to while being waterboarded

[sandersstudies]

Anyone else, esp. neurodivergent people, ever talk to someone and get elated because you’re like wow :) I am doing a Conversation :) I am doing the Asking Questions and Listening Attentively and Expressing Interest :) I have shared a Joke or brief Amusing Happening and this person liked it :) this person seems to enjoy speaking to me and I enjoy speaking to them :) I’m a person.

[sandersstudies]

I once was talking to someone I admired and they told a joke about our managers and I added to the joke, and they laughed so hard they couldn’t talk  and I was like thank you for laughing I have truly never experienced this level of euphoria and also I would die for you now.

[sandersstudies]

Recognition Responsive Euphoria is a hell of a drug 

[f1rstperson]

I do this and I’m like “This is great. I’m going to get a good grade in conversation, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,”

[orangerosebush]

I recently remembered this passage from TLG, and I find it striking that this exchange exists in the same book where Artemis' plan to survive the closing of the Gate is to possess his own clone. Like, the implication here is the Nopal has a glimmer of sentience within her -- she is more than simply an empty vessel that looks like Opal. As such, there are some... unfortunate implications about Artemis body-jacking his clone. Which isn't me saying that in a negative way, let me be clear! I actually find it *extraordinarily* funny that Foaly and Holly were immediately on board to let their ghostly former friend take control of the vaguely Artemis-like creature they'd been growing in a lab for this express purpose

[a-c-u-l-o-s]

I always saw this scene as the reason for why he thought his clone plan could work, but now that you mention it yeah that could have gone badly wrong. It would actually have worked better the other way around and for Artemis's flitting soul to inhabit the familiar but vacant body of his clone.

I suppose a children's book isn't the best place to discuss the ethics of cloning and what constitutes a soul. Magic shenanigans is always the answer.

[orangerosebush]

#Artemis's soul beating his clone soul into submission is a hilarious and terrifying image#pretty sure the clone IQ is like...2. so not a difficult task#but good for him!

[shortace]

I've thought about this too, and I sometimes wonder if the old Artemis had to persuade or compromise with his clone in order to inhabit it. Perhaps there are two of him in there now. One quiet, subdued, to be sure... but lurking...

[emmas-cozy-nook]

Orion 2.0

[lolminoot]

Never trust anyone that puts noses in their smiley faces.

[emmas-cozy-nook]

@saint-tavish

[toastbutteregg]

this is the most adorable thing ever

[pinkmonkey21]

When people remember things about me that I don’t even remember…

[emmas-cozy-nook]

@saint-tavish

[shortace]

Listen, I know Wuthering Heights can be read on multiple levels and contain meanings and themes and stuff that are worth confronting and discussing. That doesn't change the fact that I just plain don't enjoy it. My dislike for it is absolutely compounded by the number of people who see it as primarily romantic. So I will continue to punch holes in my copy with an awl, thank you.

[emmas-cozy-nook]

that's enough Instagram for today, methinks

[givemearmstopraywith]

every day i wake up and drink my silly little coffee while God eats my heart like a pomegranate in front of me

[moveslikekeithrichards]

calling your trans friend by all their chosen names at once like an angry parent

[moveslikekeithrichards]

Tedison Felix Anagram Atticus Brisk you get down from there right now or so help me

[julesblackthorns]

okay but is there a bigger plot twist in literature than holly figuring artemis is going to sacrifice himself and tranquillising him only for him to figure holly would try and take his place and have already given himself an adrenaline shot and to tranquillise her right back literally this is the scene

[emmas-cozy-nook]

or this one

[lissar-deactivated20220127]

unpopular opinion but I love it when people write essays for fun on the internet. I don’t think it’s cringe if you’re being polite and coherent and making your own post instead of making unwanted additions to other people’s posts. why say something in a 7 word meme format sentence, faking disaffection and chillness, when you could flesh it out in 7 paragraphs of sincere and substantial nuance. not just for seriousness but for fun concepts, is what i have in mind. for talking about a story or character. for talking about life. talking about anything. this is a wordy person safe zone

[sandersstudies]

Anybody else have a favorite author who you let get away with shit because you love them? Like I’ll let it slide that you use epitaphs excessively, but only because that last chapter make me cry. OOOOOkay I guess you can get away with abruptly introducing a major character halfway through the story. My favorite authors may have a little plot hole. As a treat.

[titaniarages]

YOU PUT IT INTO WORDS

[sandersstudies]

For me right now it’s Fredrik Backman, but Stephen King, Tom Robbins, etc. have definitely made me feel this way in the past.