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Keaton • 28 • They/Them Author. Dream weaver. Visionary. Plus, geek. #im like if that cuban guys wife was a blogger ko-fi • twit • ao3

[lamphous]

my woodsteeeein #mywoodstein

7.7k, E: a fic which dares to ask "what if they hooked up the night of the haldeman debacle, before the titular debacle"

8.8k, G: ponderings on the concepts of: christmas vacation, meeting the parents, and marriage. I blame this on their real life couple portmanteau. they started it

2k, G: inspired by @rubber-garage's latest. if nobody got me, I know shower time got me; or, the day after the titular debacle

4k, G: justice 4 holiday babies, with a twist of post-dental anesthesia trope. just for funsies.

updated: feb 14th

[lamphous]

belated fic moodboard. please clap + happy vday (observed)

bonus

[throesofincreasingwonder]

Also sometimes the purpose of a sex scene is to be titillating and that's, like, fine. You wouldn't go out there and argue that movies shouldn't have jokes unless they "serve a narrative purpose" because you understand that generally the purpose of a joke is to make the audience laugh and perhaps release some tension. Being horny is a normal human emotion like being amused or being scared and sometimes media is trying to evoke that particular emotion; the artist doesn't owe you a 30-page double-spaced justification for trying to make you feel something through their art. Your separation of horniness and sex from other emotions and experiences is sex negative and deeply ingrained in cultural conservatism.

[fangorn-forest]

summer sufferers poll: would you rather have…

the ability to repel all bugs so they can’t touch/bite/sting you

the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside

no chafing ever again

Remaining time: 5 days 17 hours

[lamphous]

proximity alert! in the random alec baldwin article from 1989.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek The Next Generation "The Arsenal of Freedom"

[holdoncallfailed]

i can't stop thinking about this party invitation that my friend's roommate got

[twixnmix]

Warhol superstar Candy Darling photographed by Andy Warhol, 1971.

[lamphous]

there's a point in nearly every watergate book I've read where I've been sucked into the specific narrative of one angle, and then I realize it's approaching/at the same time as some other moment I know from another angle, and it always feels like

[preacherboyd]

MASH | 9x12 Depressing News

[lamphous]

gender really is a trip. cuz like. little, technically, about me physically, in terms of what would be applicable, has changed since the last time I painted my nails (10 years ago). my hair is slightly shorter but I'd already done that before coming out. and yet I see my reflection and my first thought is not "oh shit girl again" but in fact:

[achillesinhighheels]

[tasteofgrave]

some of my favorite gabrielle transgenderism moments from the vampire lestat and the queen of the damned

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I know a lot of writers like to act like their characters are fully fledged real people who popped fully formed into their head, but they're not. you invented them. and you should interrogate why you made them the way you did. why do they look like that? why do they have those personality traits? what inspired them? what characters are they similar to? why do you as the author treat them like that?

because you are not infallible. you absorb stereotypes from the world around you. and if you don't spend time interrogating your thought process, you will spit up reductive bullshit and create bad characters and storylines because of it.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

in most cases, there is nothing inherently wrong with a character conforming to a particular stereotype. if you have an actual explanation for why your female character is the team mom or why your villain is gay, okay. there are ways to have those characters that does something for the story you're telling. but you have to be aware and compensate for the stereotypes in order to avoid perpetuating them.

and even before you do that, you should be asking yourself why? why is the girl the team mom? it might be in character for her, but you picked her personality. why did you pick it? why is the villain gay? does it add anything? a good writer should be able to explain their character choices and how those choices matter to the story they're trying to tell. if someone asks why the black girl is the only one who dies, and you don't have a solid answer, you need to change some stuff.

[lamphous]

crazy to me that there are people who have never lost consciousness, or have, like, fainted twice their entire lives

cuz let's see, I remember fainting at least 3 times in elementary school (once under the hot lights on the school news, once during class in 4th grade, and another time before all those I forgot otherwise) plus the time they tried to draw my blood about those 3 times (freaked out, fainted in waiting room), once in middle school health class (graphic depiction of suicide, don't know why they did that to us lol), once in church choir at the end of mass (10th grade ish, didn't eat beforehand), twice in college (trying to get blood drawn to get my pcos diagnosis, fainted) (that crazy flu I had spring 2019 where I started fainting, fell to the ground, and knocked my head on the sink and was knocked out that way instead)

then there's the actual medical ones: after my last TSH injection post-thyroidectomy, before they even got to giving me the radioiodine, I passed out/maybe had a seizure?? they still don't know, but *I* have no recollection of it other than what my mom told me. then the first blood draw after that. then when I actually got my pcos diagnosis by them taking, like, ALL of my blood and then sending me right home, at which point I fainted before even getting through the lobby (DUH)

plus my one and only blackout, from a most wretched and, it turned out, expired edible—that's already at least 12! at least once every 4 years! and you guys are at ZERO?

and that's not even counting all the times I have inexplicably fallen straight asleep, out of nowhere, despite sitting upright in the middle of the day, only to wake up 4 hours later miserable, more tired than ever, and wondering what the fuck that was about

[lamphous]

definitely also fainted during field day in elementary school, cuz I forgot it was field day and didn't bring a water bottle, and I think at somebody's birthday party....? for the same reason

probably doesn't count, but there's also the time I stayed up til 3 am after a 10 hr shift to get on a train to boston, stayed awake out of anxiety I would miss my stop, then fell asleep somewhere around connecticut and woke back up when we were pulling out of a station, at which point I thought I had missed my stop and panicked at a train attendant until I realized we were.... still in connecticut

I've never passed out drunk, though, so I guess there's that

[lamphous]

crazy to me that there are people who have never lost consciousness, or have, like, fainted twice their entire lives

cuz let's see, I remember fainting at least 3 times in elementary school (once under the hot lights on the school news, once during class in 4th grade, and another time before all those I forgot otherwise) plus the time they tried to draw my blood about those 3 times (freaked out, fainted in waiting room), once in middle school health class (graphic depiction of suicide, don't know why they did that to us lol), once in church choir at the end of mass (10th grade ish, didn't eat beforehand), twice in college (trying to get blood drawn to get my pcos diagnosis, fainted) (that crazy flu I had spring 2019 where I started fainting, fell to the ground, and knocked my head on the sink and was knocked out that way instead)

then there's the actual medical ones: after my last TSH injection post-thyroidectomy, before they even got to giving me the radioiodine, I passed out/maybe had a seizure?? they still don't know, but *I* have no recollection of it other than what my mom told me. then the first blood draw after that. then when I actually got my pcos diagnosis by them taking, like, ALL of my blood and then sending me right home, at which point I fainted before even getting through the lobby (DUH)

plus my one and only blackout, from a most wretched and, it turned out, expired edible—that's already at least 12! at least once every 4 years! and you guys are at ZERO?

and that's not even counting all the times I have inexplicably fallen straight asleep, out of nowhere, despite sitting upright in the middle of the day, only to wake up 4 hours later miserable, more tired than ever, and wondering what the fuck that was about

[leepacey]

Children of Men (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours