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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

blocking people who think you owe them an argument is SO sexy, and so fulfilling. try it if you haven't!

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The block button and the back button are two of your greatest weapons

[the-haiku-bot]

The block button and

the back button are two of

your greatest weapons

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[cheese24k]

[forest-kiss-deactivated20160407]

I remember when I first watched this show, I played this part at least 5 times

[peopleareaproblem]

Narrator: “Water. Unlike other cats, long-haired Persians need regular baths to keep their luxurious coats healthy and fluffy. Reginald doesn’t care if he has a prize-winning coat. He just wants the ordeal to be over.”

Reginald: *meows in distress*

Narrator: Unfortunately for Reggie, there’s one last step. He’s about to learn that getting wet is nothing – compared to getting dry.”

♫ TRIUMPHANT FANTASY MUSIC ♪

@captioned-vines​

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

"should we tell authors on ao3 when we have discord conversations about their fics" i don't speak for everyone here but if y'all ever find a group chat discussing my fics you can should must and WILL send me screenshots of the whole damn thing. inflate my ego. gimme

[bokettochild]

seriously though! we spend so much time doubting ourselves, especially when writing the thing! And we spend a lot of time writing it, so any time you give back to us to show us it was worth the trouble, every word you spare to talk about what we made, that's precious to us. We wanna hear it, no matter how incoherent you are!!!

[dear-ao3]

everyone rise for the truest of all ancient texts:

[lythefairystan]

yall remember qwop?

[lythefairystan]

normalize processing difficult situations privately

[zuzsenpai]

Happy 10 years in the ball pit

[abiteofhoney-deactivated2025030]

this is a safe space for people who think they’re “bad” writers btw you’re not a bad writer, you’re learning and i love you

[lythefairystan]

i hope you're doing alright

[teathattast]

[marisatomay]

This Pride I hope that all of you never ever forget that no amount of sanitizing your sex life or sanding down of your LGBT edges will make bigots accept you. So, don’t debase yourself by capitulating an inch to them, especially in ways that throw your fellow community members under the bus.

[marisatomay]

You are a degenerate faggot in the eyes of bigots whether you’re wearing a nice button down and slacks with combed hair or leather daddy kink gear. So stand with the freaks who will stand with you until the end—long after the bigots have abandoned you despite your claims to be “one of the good ones.”

[lythefairystan]

succession au where jenny nicholson releases a 4 hour deep dive on all the problems with brightstar adventure park, which domino effects into the complete and total destruction of the roy family empire

[lythefairystan]

in my "can i get a waffle, can i PLEASE get a waffle" era right now

[queen-of-meows]

I'm a strong believer in positive engagement.

You don't make students enjoy "classics" by shaming them for enjoying YA. The same go with plenty of other things. Recommending media with diversity in a positive an appealing way will always do much better good in the world than shaming m/f shippers for shipping m/f. Recommending diverse music with love and passion will do a lot moe good than shaming poeple for enjoying pop music. Because as an adult who've been a teenager, let me tell you I've never bent down to arguments of authority without grudge and resent.

Also, I have news : you can like classic AND YA. You can ship m/f couples AND be interested in learning and being an ally, you can listen to Taylor Swift AND get interested in history of African music. You can be cultivated AND be your own person with your own tastes and experiences.

The point of activism should not be to punish other poeple into conforming in a mold of superficial "progressivism", it should be to create a better world. Be careful of poeple who enjoy a power trip with superficial online discourse.

[lythefairystan]

kendall roy would definitely wear that “i am kenough” shirt from the barbie movie

[failmarriage-of-the-day]

The failmarriage of the day is Goncharov and Katya from Goncharov!

[lythefairystan]

the blueprint

[dingdongyouarewrong]

tangentially related (my previous post wasn’t actually about YA, but it did make me think about this) but my take on adults who, when reading fiction books they like in their spare time, only want to read like…… YA… is pretty much the exact same as my take on people who go to a restaurant and order their steaks well-done.

which is that it is not what i would personally choose to exclusively consume, and i do see it as limiting yourself and excluding a lot of really fantastic options, but also at the end of the day it is not really my business and i am weirded out by the culture of people acting personally affronted by another person’s consumption habits. 

[dingdongyouarewrong]

@weaver-z​ oh 100% agree with you here. there are so many posts like ‘YA has excitement and adventure while adult literature is just about men cheating on their wives’ which like 1) the exact same post has been made over and over again we do not need another one of these and 2) is just blatantly untrue. 

i also wonder how much of this is about things being incorrectly labelled as YA when they’re not? i know a lot of female adult sf/f authors have faced this (v.e schwab, naomi novik, alix e. harrow, and erin morgenstern are the first who come to mind), where their fantasy books written for adults with adult characters get incorrectly classified as YA books Because Woman. a lot of adult stories that do have things like excitement and adventure either get ignored or misclassified, and i wonder how much of that contributes to this weird notion that there are no exciting or interesting books for/about adults. 

also i totally agree with your second response and i think that’s extra insulting to adult fiction writers who don’t fit the mold of being like, cis straight white dudes. being told ‘your whole genre is just shitty men cheating on their wives’ flattens so many diverse stories and experiences in such an insulting way