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[book-caps]

Beau Taplin, The Wild Heart 

art by night-rooms

[nondelphic]

writing is just sitting in front of a computer and making up problems for imaginary people while ignoring your own. fun and casual hobby.

[swagcatholic]

Sometimes I get so horny I actually touch myself sexually

[makingqueerhistory]

Hello! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for books on asexuality (both fiction and non)? I tried searching through your blog but I didn't see anything other than The Bone People (which is already on my list).

Thank you in advance, and thank you for this project! I haven't read all of your articles, but the ones I have were wonderfully written and very insightful. ^.^

Absolutely! We have a few to recommend!

Ace

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

I would love to read some more recently released books though, does anyone in our audience have any recommendations?

[probuccalfat]

you people will make anybody a daddy dom it’s so scary

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[lukellios]

There is one song that can immediately bring me to tears. If you've played this game, you know.

[yoshikage-kiwa]

Draw/write/create self indulgent freak shit

NOW 🫵❗️❗️❗️

[nihongo-ni-hon-yaku]

Beginner Japanese tip: “Thank you”

Japanese has two formal ways of saying "thank you": ありがとうございます arigatougozaimasu and ありがとうございました arigatougozaimashita. What is the difference and when do we use them?

The distinction

If the favor you're thanking someone for is in the future, use the non-past tense form, ありがとうございます. If the favor you're thanking someone for is in the past, use the past tense form, ありがとうございました.

Why are there two tenses?

Looking back into the etymology of ありがとうございます, we can trace it back to an archaic conjugation of 有難い arigatai; it means "auspicious" or "fortunate" now, but it literally means "rare", or "difficult for it to exist" (有る aru → ari- as ren'youkei form + 難い katai → gatai with rendaku).

When you're thanking someone for a favor in Japanese, you're literally telling someone that they've done (or are intending to do) a rare and precious gesture of kindness.

ございます gozaimasu is the verb ending for this adjective, so you need to inflect it for the past as ございました gozaimashita if the event you're thanking someone for is in the past.

Casual speech

In casual speech, both forms clip to just ありがとう arigatou so this tense distinction is no longer necessary.

[ultirex]

“feeling like a person again” collection

[hachama]

[thel1ghtningthief]

bringing this one out of the comments cause. yeah.

[sun-ashes]

Canon compliant AU where after a big fight with lots of injuried people and a pretty high dead count, where for the most part the allied forces (Cleaners and Hell's Guards) were incommunicated, Zanka goes up to his exhausted + hurt siblings (he's in pretty rough shape too) and asks for a favor from each of them.

Kyouka looks at him for a moment then asks what he wants, supposing is something related to the Cleaners. Zanka asks her to stay still for one minute. Kyouka supposes he's going to take advantage of her weakened status to injure her somehow (she, too, has a mean streak) and goes "fine" because fuck it, this day can't get any worse and maybe her stubborn baby brother will stop looking at her like she's the devil if he gets a hit in. Goka protests. Zanka throws herself at her—

—and hugs her so tight it squeezes the air half from her lungs. Kyouka is stunned. Goka is frozen in place, jaw hanging open. The entirety of the Red Horns Squad One watches in silent astonishment.

"I'm so glad you are okay," Zanka says, and his voice is soft and vulnerable and small and weak, like when he was a child, like when they loved each other. Kyouka is suddenly on the verge of tears, chocked with emotion. Still she's too shocked to return the hug, to hold him against her too, reassure herself on his steady breathing and rabbiting heart.

And then the minute is up and Zanka steps back swiftly, his expression wiped clean of emotion as he turns to Goka (still frozen in place) and in an entirely unaffected tone asks him if he can stay still for a minute.

Goka is sure Zanka is going to punch him because he was never as close to him as Kyouka, but he still nods, and a second later he has a chestful of baby brother hugging him. Goka cannot compute wtf is going on. Zanka tells him he was worried about him. Goka looks at his sister for instructions but Kyouka is too busy trying to control her suddenly spasming hands, trying to hold onto something (someone) who is not there anymore.

And then Goka's minute is up too and Zanka steps away, nods his head at them and thanks them for their time all businesslike. Then he's gone.

The memory of this exchange will haunt them all for months before any of them ever tries to reach out to the others and try to sort their shit out. But they will eventually!

[lemorgo]

you've done enough

[jay-rayart]

FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[cherishedwifey]

an under-appreciated view.

[my-dailydreams]