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Dusty • 20s • she/her • writeblr Currently attempting to write a fantasy book (^-^) Ask/tag game friendly!

[scribbling-stardust]

Hi, I'm Dusty and I'm a writer (theoretically). I mostly write fantasy and sci-fi and I like making detailed worlds for my stories. I love taking part in asks/tag games and am happy to listen if anyone wants to ramble about their wips to me.

The wip I'm working on at the moment is The Underglory, a YA/NA fantasy story in which a boy gets possessed by a powerful magical entity (called a Glory) and has to travel the world with a group of hugely underqualified teenagers in order to get him unpossessed without letting the Glory know. It involves, found family, unresolved trauma, sentient magic and a lot of things going wrong but maybe some things going right along the way.

Here's the updated intro post and the wip page for tags and more info.

Bonus: Here's the navigation page (may or may not work on the mobile app) with a list of tags if you want to find something specific.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

also we have GOT to collectively come to terms with the fact that me or any other stranger online disliking or even making fun of something you like is not saying “no fun allowed” “no one can ever enjoy this” you have simply got to grow a spine and be able to like the shit you like. you don’t even have to defend it! like 90% of the media i really enjoy is divisive and half my friends actively hate it. i really don’t give a fuck though because i like it. you can write whatever you want! you’re allowed! even if it’s MY least favorite genre or style of writing and i have active distaste for it!

[iamyounicorn]

[guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.

[jeanclaudejaquettie]

[loidhne]

Charles Ray - Plank Piece - 1973

[aphel1on]

Affirmations before posting:

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

[setulose]

(scrolling dashboard after something big happens in a fandom you don't care about)

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do you guys think there are worms who fetishize being put on fish hooks

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[uququ]

the parallel w/ germanic bear is interesting but it must be said that "brown one" is vastly inferior to "cutie pie"

[rattlesnek]

my nickname "guy who doesn't attack people" is raising a lot of questions that are already answered by the nickname

[drlivistoned]

I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

I had a breast reduction when I was 16. I was so top heavy that my back had started spasming badly by the time I was 12, if I hadn’t been able to get my reduction, I would’ve been in more extreme pain for much longer. The relief was almost instant. Just one example of medically necessary plastic surgery, in case people aren’t sure what that looks like.

Medically necessary plastic surgery also includes removing excess skin when someone loses a lot of weight: skin folds can become infected. Burn victims’ skin grafts, those are plastic surgery too. The field covers a lot more than people think.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Harold Gillies, now considered to be the father of modern plastic surgery, developed most of his techniques (many of which are still in use today) specifically to reconstruct the faces of men who'd been injured in WW1.

Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.

In both cases, the techniques he developed were still being used in similar operations decades later. Gillies himself stated that he wanted no publicity for performing these operations, saying that "If it gives real happiness, that is the most that any surgeon or medicine can give.”

[kathrahender]

Normalize saying "I see them as friends but ship them if you want" instead of saying "They're just friends" because the first just sounds like a preference you have (which is right), the second sounds like a fact, homophobic (even if you don't intend to sound homophobic you do sound like that) and as if seeing them as gay was wrong.

[mortalityplays]

the day after tdov should be international try it out for a minute day. try on something you'd wear if you were trans (and nobody is saying you are), try out makeup for the first time (for the novelty), imagine what your name would be if you were to transition (and you don't have to), think of yourself with a different pronoun and imagine people casually referring to you that way (just because it's international try it out for a minute day). it's april first, who says it means anything. just try it out for a minute.

[mortalityplays]

happy try it out for a minute day

[the-polyhedron]

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

[liarsblade]

[completely misunderstood the story] I always interpreted it as a sort of found family narrative myself. Like the frog is the scorpion's baby and she loves him very much :)

[werewolf-transgenderism]

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

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[prokopetz]

Forum culture circa 1996: Your social life consists of a series of walled-garden communities ruled by emotionally fragile boy-kings whose pathological need to be universally admired prompts them to routinely carry out targeted purges of women and minorities.

Social media circa 2026: The boy-kings are also complicit in war crimes.

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[insomniac-arrest]

one of the underrated lessons from lotr's Aragorn is to avoid responsibility for as long as humanly possible, possibly in the woods, possibly without showering, until the small folk need you or whatever

[devoteddummydoll]

watching a friend of mine angrily defend CNC online and then shame people with an incest kink for being gross