Noah Kahan
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if i look back, i am lost
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@sevenjetc
Hanging out with my childhood friend is so weirdly annoying. Like she’s exactly the same and back then when we were twelve, we’d be doing fun stupid shit, and now she still does fun stupid shit like jumping on the couches in Ikea or climbing trees and laughing because unlike me she doesn’t have a chronic depression. I wish I could do that stuff and laugh about it.
I’m afraid that’s called “not being fucking depressed” but what the fuck do I know about that…
Battlestar Galactica (2003) 03.19 Crossroads Part 1
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Bart to the Future The Simpsons S11 E17 Air Date: March 19, 2000
The show made this for the chalkboard gag after the election.
I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS
Sitcom, Comedy, Parody, Adventure, Musical, FantasyA musical comedy adventure featuring a knight on a quest for love who helps a childish ki
All the episodes of Galavant are on the Internet Archive!
This. This is the online friend experience.
#me to a person i've known for 5 years: remind me what your gender is
There is no product. It's a scam sold as "you need to act now or everyone will pass you by".
I think we are focusing on the wrong thing when talking about mainstream romantasy adult books, instead of shaming straight cis women for reading kinky books, we should tralk about how most of the newer books aimed at that demographic are just conservative propoganda, rebranding patriarchy as a kink.
There's nothing inherently wrong about liking the types of kinks that are present, control, power imbalance, dark themes, but when you really look at the top performing novels (which they are mass prodicing at questionable speeds) it's hard to ignore the ever present morally grey man, who's posessive over the heroine who starts off as otherworldly different from the 'regular woman' aka damsel in distress), is cruel to everyone except her, and the fantasy world revolves around the control of women, especially when it comes to forced pregnancy.
I'm seeing a lot of responses to this saying "this is why I read queer stories" but you're missing the point! You can relate to queer media because you're queer, cis straight women should also have material that aren't turning their opression into kinks in almost every. single. book. If they want to choose to read those stories, that's absolutely fine, again nothing wrong with exploring those dynamics, but the concerning part is how fast they're being made with the rise of booktok, and the looming threat to women's autonomy.
Remember when all mlm stories were borderine assault stories in the early 90s-2000s? and how long it took for other queer stories to be made? we all used our voices to make a change, it didn't magically stop we fought for it to not be the only type of story.
And the solution to this, for people who are wondering, isn't to try to suppress romantasy books because they're not "good for women." That's an old, old game and never goes anywhere good. The solution is not less kink and less porn. The solution is more kink and more porn.
Because when you think about it, the problem isn't that you can go to your chosen bookseller and find a story where Sparklia Special gets semi-forced to have babies for Broody McDarkenfay (it's okay, she's into it). The problem is that it is unnecessarily difficult to look a little further down the shelf and find a vampire princess domming the hell out of the hunter who knows he shouldn't love her. Reducing people's choices always serves the reactionary agenda one way or another. Expanding choices. That's where it's at.
(If this sounds like I am making a pitch that we should write porn to defeat fascism, that's…not entirely a mischaracterization. I mean, of course it won't defeat fascism, but I do feel that while we work to defeat fascism, we should at least have diverse and satisfying porn.)
If given the chance to change your height, would you want to
(4'11" or under) be taller
(4'11" or under) be shorter
(4'11" or under) stay the same
(5' - 5'7") be taller
(5' - 5'7") be shorter
(5' - 5'7") stay the same
(5'8" - 6'2") be taller
(5'8" - 6'2") be shorter
(5'8" - 6'2") stay the same
(6'3 or more) be taller
(6'3 or more) be shorter
(6'3 or more) stay the same
happy scully day 🧡
Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?
I’m going to be honest I am annoyed about the influx of fic turned book that’s been happening the last few years. Not every hobby has to turn into a hustle. It also feels disingenuous and like you don’t actually care about fandom and the fanfiction community and it’s just a workshop for these authors. Also I think it’s hedging closer and closer to a crackdown on fics because so many of this books are being marketed as former fics, it’s making this line blurrier and blurrier and the very thin shield that Fair Use has to protect fic writers could easily be stripped. Idk it just feels yucky and nasty to me personally
Not going to be diplomatic but kind of mean with my addition here. But I also think you’re a bad writer if you do this. Because either your fic sucked as a fic or your book will suck as a book, because a good fic is so intrinsic with canon details and remixes and interpretations of the source material, that readers are so excited to read it because it feels like the characters/universe they first fell in love with. If your fic-turned-book can easily be stripped of those nuances, it fails as a good fic. Maybe it was highly readable but it wasn’t good. But, then, if your fic-turned-book cannot be easily stripped of those nuances, it fails as a good book because it’s no longer readable. I have read myself* exactly one fic-turned-book where I had also read the fic version, and one of the highly emotional moments in the narrative fell completely flat in the book because all of the original source material had been stripped away.
*a few of my friends have read fic-turned-books after reading the original fic, a few of my friends have read fic-turned-books that was never actually posted as fic (the Hozier RPF), I have compared the original fics to fic-turned-books, I have unknowingly read a fic-turned-book where I didn’t read the fic but I was familiar with the source material for the fic. The specific one cited above is a fic I read in 2022 that was then turned into a book that I read this year, just to see what could possibly have been changed
