Sharing of Words

Educator. Fangirl. Queer.

[blanklier]

does someone want a hollanov fic list that's just my personal latest/best reads? no? well you're getting it anyway.

ain't nothing but mammals explicit, 7k, oneshot. exquisitely nasty. sweat kink, couple sex that you can only have with the person you allow yourself to be unfiltered and human with.

blood upon the snow unrated, 13k, complete. have you thought about shane getting into fights? great, here's eight chapters of exactly that.

i like jane for you mature, 17k, complete. hayden and ilya accidentally switch phones. they swear to not intrude on each other's privacy. they break that promise within the hour. it works out pretty okay.

ilya rozanov's 2017 dating wrapped teen, 1k, oneshot. ilya drops hints to his team about his relationship via presentation. they don't really catch on.

au mauvais moment mature, 5k, oneshot. shane gets an abortion while he's dating rose. they're pretty okay at handling it. i support the number of abortion fics in this fandom wholeheartedly. he would Not keep that thing.

shane hollander goes casual (he's so cool and unbothered) explicit, 24k, complete. shane has a hoe phase (with spreadsheets). ilya attempts not to explode from jealousy.

never was much of a romantic explicit, 5k, oneshot. hollanov fight over ilya suggesting shane sleep with other people, fuck, and make up. they are aggressively in love, and jealous, and shane has a speech that made me audibly cackle. i already posted about this one but it deserves another mention.

KNOCKOUT! series of (currently) two fics, both complete. explicit, 9k total. hollanov fuck around with pain kink in their reliably unsafe, but definitely fun way. a very loving anthem to masochism and sadism that made me smile in demented glee

logged in gen, 3k, oneshot. shane and ilya reconnect after rose via letterboxed.

vibes are not data teen, 18k, complete. wyatt and ilya's bromance, wyatt's adhd, and pattern recognition getting one over hollanov's secret keeping skills. every relationship in this was so loving and refreshing and i adore it

like one of your girls explicit, 5k, oneshot. shane has a lot of feelings about being another one of ilya's many hookups. some of them aren't nice. a strong dash of internalized homophobia in this one, folks

for a split sec, i was a train wreck explicit, 18k, complete. ilya gets injured, stays at home, gets into tarot, and tries not to spiral into madness. it's mostly a successful endeavor.

dust bowl explicit, 28k, complete. transfem shane, who's been ilya's girl for longer than she's known she's a girl at all. definitely angsty, but by god, am i having feelings about it.

morality clause gen, 13k, complete. canon through yuna's eyes, also dealing with the more technical aspect of being shane's mom-ager.

one sunday morning mature, 8k, oneshot. ilya gets injured. shane shows up to take care of him. neither of them are sure what feelings they're allowed to be having about this. set early in canon.

connecting the dots mature, 7k, oneshot. hayden thinks lily's a dominatrix. surprisingly, this theory does fit in a lot of ways, except for all those other ones where it definitely doesn't.

fuck the news unrated, 3k, oneshot. hollanov gets outed in episode two. they try to survive. reveal fic

(wild and fluorescent) come home (to my heart) unrated, 3k, oneshot. ilya suggests putting down shane like an old dog, but mostly scott hunter. this is a normal conversation to be having with his boyfriend's newly-met mother, surely.

we'll be afraid of nothing teen, 8k, oneshot. ilya calls shane boring all the time, but he's not sure it means the same thing on the ice than off it. more than that: he's pretty sure it means something pretty bad. misunderstandings and a lot of feelings about shane's autism.

the secret society of stick handlers series, ongoing. the gay nhl players have their own groupchat. it's pretty okay, if you don't mind the chaos.

you get me explicit, 10k, oneshot. shane's pretty good at yoga, and plenty flexible- flexible enough that sucking his own cock is more of a possibility than a fantasy, really. ilya's about to make that into a reality.

little more close explicit, 2k, oneshot. cnc. shane wants ilya to do a scene with him. they have a good time.

drive it like you stole it explicit, 12k, oneshot. ilya gets injured and gets horny about it.

edit: here's parts two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen fourteen because i'm normal and can be trusted with an ao3 account

[tamlins-stories-and-poems]

Beware the Daye, little fae.

Beware of her and those in her sway.

Beware her steps, where Firstborn rot,

Unless her favor, they have got.

Speak her name with only fright,

For she breaks our kings, this Knight.

Oh, but children, if you’re lost,

She will take the Sea’s harsh cost.

Daye will save you, if she can

From even Blind Micheal’s cruel, cruel hand.

Thorns and paws do dog her steps,

Following blood from her dress.

Yes, beware the Daye, little fae,

For she will take you in her sway.

Some of the panels under the cut, the rest in a reblog bc APPARENTLY tumblr won’t let me post all 14 at once:

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(If anyone wants a typed up version of my thought process for any of these let me know I actually made a google doc about it)

[tanoraqui]

with some aid from @professorsparklepants, I have decided o the best Toby Daye fic I will never write: Quentin and Raj and maybe Chelsea sneak into a bar. A faerie bar

“sneak” might be a strong word. it’s run by a half-troll changeling and the assumption is that if you look over about 12 in human years and you can pay for your drink, you either know what you’re doing or you’ll get what’s coming to you

they’re very pleased with themselves anyway

they discover, in this bar, that October Daye is a Chuck Norris meme. None of them had heard about this before. All three are delighted

there’s a contest? of some sort? probably informal, between drunk people?

Our Kids, incognito and (thankfully) not drinking much themselves because they want to stay that way, and the excitement of absofuckinglutely lying to all their guardians about where they are right now is enough - Our Kids get in on this. Obviously.

“I heard October Daye wrestled a bridge troll with her bare hands, no magic or knives, and beat him to death” says a patron

“I heard October Daye found a Hope Chest and threw it in the ocean because she didn’t like the workmanship,” says Quentin

“Toby Daye took over the Silences just so she could fuck the King of Cats on the royal throne,” says another patron. A Tylwyth Tyg, she raises her glass. “I know, my second cousin was there.”

Quentin makes a gagging face. Raj plays hardball: “That’s shit - I heard Toby Daye is sleeping with the Luidaeg.”

“October Daye knifed Blind Michael in the throat and stole back all the kids he’d-” “Boo, you’re out, Sam! You can’t say real things!” “Yeah, that actually happened!”

“Hey, hey!” Chelsea waves her hand for attention. “Toby Daye tore open a hole to Annwyn and kicked the Duchess of Dreamer’s Glass through, because the Duchess insulted her jacket. AND she stole an Afrac on her way out. I was there, not some fake cousin.”

(That girl did not grow up hiding pointed ears through public school to not be able to say these things deadpan.)

it is conceded that that was a pretty good one

“Okay, okay, get this,” says a patron. “My wife’s cousin’s niece-in-law is a maid at the high court-” “No one related to your wife is a maid, Jemma!”  “Fuck off, Marius! Like I was saying, my wife’s sister’s cousin works at the high court in Toronto, and I have it on her life that October Daye was hired by their royal majesties to personally train their heir in blood magic.”

Quentin inhales his drink, and can’t breath until Raj has pounded his back for about half a minute.

Chelsea takes the mike again to save them: “I heard Toby Daye found Oberon, but he insulted changelings so she slammed the door back in his face.”

“Yeah, that tracks,” the other bar-goers generally agree. 

….

(I don’t actually have more to this. I just want the kids to have fun and for Toby to be a local meme.)

[seananmcguire]

Somebody please write this because I can’t.  I will never be able to read it, but knowing that it exists will soothe my aching soul.

[darkfrog24]

“A Bannick tried to get the bloodstains out of October Daye’s jacket.  It died two days later.”

“October Daye didn’t find the queen a new knowe.  She told it to hurry its ass up and exist.”

“October Daye wasn’t sent to Silences as an ambassador.  She just had a bet about who could bang the hottest king.  October won.”

“That’s not a king of cats.  October Daye just sneezed on a Shakespeare nerd once and he gained magical powers.”

(Raj snorts up his root beer.)

“Death keeps having near-October Daye experiences. …No, seriously.  Didn’t she talk to Night Haunts?”

“If you take away October Daye’s coffee for a year and a day, she reverts to her true form.”

Quentin adds, “If you takes away October Daye’s coffee for five seconds, she rips your arms off.”

“Maeve swears by October’s tits.”

“October Daye is what the Luidaeg tells grodymonster horror stories about!  Oh shit wait I said that out loud?! I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I—glgllllrlrrfffrrrrr.”

“WHAT THE SHIT?!”

“TREVOR, NO!”

“Where the hell did all these spiders come from?!”

At that point the kids quietly leave the bar and decide to go back to the library or charity bingo or wherever it was they told their respective guardians they were going to be.

[professorsparklepants]

AS ASSISTANT CREATOR OF THE ORIGINAL POST I APPROVE THIS ADDITION

[tanoraqui]

as creator of the original post, I second that delighted shout. Though I’d like to argue the last couple points:

It’s the bonus round on pub trivia night, where the game flips and whoever has the best lie wins, rather than the quickest truth. Tonight the category is, as read forth by the barwoman: “October motherfucking Daye.”

There’s a semblance of order. People raise their hands, or they don’t get the microphone. One server, a Hob changeling, carries it from patron to patron; the other, a girl who looks mostly Daoine Sidhe plus a little bit furry, keeps score based on what gets the most cheers. The barwoman oversees the semi-chaos genially, with the earned confidence of a bridge troll who knows she can bodily throw troublemakers from her establishment - and, indeed, a reputation for doing just that.

“October motherfucking Daye died once, but the Night Haunts were too scared to take her, so she came back!”

“October motherfucking Daye beat a stone giant in a fistfight - and it never broke her skin!”

“October motherfucking Daye once rescued a cat from a tree - a Cait Sidhe Firstborn, and the tree was Maeve’s!”

Some might be tempted not to. cheer for any “fact” but their own team’s, but that is not in the spirit of the Lucky Leper’s pub trivia night. You shout honestly, and others do the same. And anyway - this is midtown San Francisco. October “motherfucking” Daye is their Hero.

“October motherfucking Daye turned into a fish because she was tired of Grunge trying to ape her style!”

“October motherfucking Daye can beat Duke Torquill in a sword fight!”

Two princes and a junior page sit in a corner, trying desperately not to giggle - and trying to get the Hob boy’s attention, because boy do they have some good ones. (Their parents and parental figures are all under the impression that they are at one another’s houses - with inadvisable food and. drink, perhaps, but at least safely in private.)

“October motherfucking Daye sleeps on a bed of rowan!”

“October motherfucking Daye can drive from downtown to Berkeley in twenty minutes - at rush hour.”

No one notices the door open, or cares. People have come and gone.

“One time, October Daye met the Daoine Side Firstborn on a plane - and she told October she was pretty!”

“Starbucks asked if they could sponsor October Daye. She fucking flipped them off.”

One or two people, maybe, notice that the air that wafts in smells of seawater, though the bar is nowhere near the shore. The mic gets passed to a tipsy Glastig with bright red fur.

“The Luidaeg tells scary stories about October motherfucking-”

Everyone notices the hand that falls over his, and the young-looking woman to whom it is attached. Her dark, curling hair is tied back with painter’s tape, the waves of the deep sea bound only because they consent to. it, and her overalls are worn and her eyes are bottle-glass green.

Busted, Raj mouths at his friends.

“So busted,” Quentin moans softly, and puts his head on his arms on the table, as if perhaps that will help him hide.

“Will she tell on us?” Chelsea whispers. 

“She’ll have to, if someone asks straight-out.” Quentin’s voice is muffled by his arms. They would all be very loud in the suddenly silent bar, was all attention not absolutely fixed on the Luidaeg.

The Luidaeg takes the microphone from the Glastig’s frozen hand. With her other, she grabs some peanuts from his party’s table, and pops them in her mouth.

“Toby’s not nearly that scary,” she says, with no sign of the peanuts. Maybe all the extra teeth in her grin took care of them. “She’s okay at picking me donuts, though.”

Her gaze sweeps the room as she hands the microphone back. The Glastig takes it with trembling hands; the (uncrowned) (tipsy) Crown Prince of all the Westlands attempts to burrow further into his arms. 

“Definitely busted,” the Prince of Dreaming Cats, also known as Raj, murmurs as the Sea Witch sweeps out. He starts tugging Quentin to his feet. “Come on, if we want a shot, we have to go beg her right now. She likes you best.

Bar patrons are starting to move again - several to flee, for the front door or, perhaps more cannily, the back. So our young heroes’ movement continues to go unremarked.

Chelsea, the first daughter of Faerie to set foot in its deep realms in five hundred years, rubs her eyes. “Dammit, I knew this was a bad idea. Mom is going to go full professor-lecture mode if she finds out we were drinking in a real bar.”

[echidna-of-destiny]

Toby as a Chuck Norris meme is the best thing I’ve read since last September.

[seananmcguire]

Hi Seanan! I am so excited by the double Toby books this year - just saw the cover reveals, and they look awesome! I have a question about them (well, I have a lot of questions, but don't want to bother you too much): how does having 2 books affect the series numbering - if Sleep No More is book 17, is The Innocent Sleep book 18 or 17.5? More specifically, will TIS count in the "every 4 books are wham episodes" tally, or is that only for Toby-narrated books? Thank you!

The Innocent Sleep is book 18. But you're right, it's going to be interesting to see where our next wham line falls--it could be 20, it could be 21. I think it's going to be 20, with things going as they currently seem to be...

[shipping-isnt-morality]

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

[zandracourt]

This needs to be reblogged today.

[justsparethoughts-deactivated20]

Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following:

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

You walnut.

[vi-maxwell-blog]

This is the most beautiful thing that I have seen about ao3

[meadowziplines]

how long it takes Toby to bleed per October Daye book!

Together with the Toby Daye discord server I made graphs(tm) of how long it takes Toby in each book to bleed (for any reason, not just external violence), per the Kindle ebook editions.

Calculated by searching keywords such as blood/bleed.

Ashes of Honor currently holds the record for the shortest amount of time it takes her to bleed, and Be the Serpent holds the record for the longest amount of time.

By number of pages in the books:

By percent of pages into the books:

Link as a Google Sheets published webpage

Raw data under the cut:

Rosemary and Rue: pg. 124 / 47%

A Local Habitation: pg. 152 / 42%

An Artificial Night: pg. 35 / 8%

Late Eclipses: pg. 70 / 19%

One Salt Sea: pg. 120 / 29%

Ashes of Honor: pg. 5 / 4%

Chimes at Midnight: pg. 142 / 43%

The Winter Long: pg. 251 / 39%

A Red-Rose Chain: pg. 230 / 62%

Once Broken Faith: pg. 241 / 68%

The Brightest Fell: pg. 201 / 69%

Night and Silence: pg. 105 / 36%

The Unkindest Tide: pg. 143 / 47.50%

A Killing Frost: pg. 68 / 22.50%

When Sorrows Come: pg. 95 / 31%

Be The Serpent: pg. 261 / 82%

[sharing-of-words]

This was great fun to help with. PS join us on Discord!!

Join the October Daye fans Discord Server!

Check out the October Daye fans community on Discord - hang out with 233 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[seawitchkaraoke]

Simon is actually Sylvester's fetch, here's why:

Points in favour:

- Simon's magic (cider and smoke) smells completely different from Sylvester's (daffodils and dogwood flower) but it could be argued that smoke and ashes aren't all that far apart and May's magic is ashes and cotton candy

- Sylvester according to Patrick never treated Simon right. Logical I guess not everyone would be as comfortable adopting their fetch as Toby is

- The Torquills have known Amandine for a VERY long time. Amandine can break the connection between fetches and the person who's death omen they're supposed to be

- simon does a lot of transfiguration magic. Transfiguration is water magic which is Maeve's terrain, the nighthaunts and therefore the fetches are claimed by Maeve (at least I think they are)

- when Eira influenced Sylvester he seemed to be entirely under her control not regretful about anything he was doing, not questioning it either, we also see this in Toby when Eira almost gets her. Yet Simon manages to have enough awareness to try and warn Toby, to try to save her by turning her into a fish rather than outright killing her, to give toby a regretful look as he puts a choking spell on tybalt and in the shortstory, to brew potions to ward himself against Eira's influence

- toby doesn't know exactly what kind of magic fetches are capable off. Simon is one hell of a sorcerer. We assume a lot of his magic is borrowed from Eira or other people and that may be true but it might also be covering up what he can do himself

Things that are problems but I can explain away anything try me:

- if he is a fetch toby should have smelled/tasted his heritage - simon may have a way to mask that plus I don't remember Toby ever being like "i could taste her fetch heritage in the air" or anything. Even if she did notice something she may have put it aside as the general fucked up ness that is simon

- toby should have seen it in his blood - toby only went far enough back to when he thought amandine was hor. Of he has been a fetch for as long as I think then he, at that point, wouldn't have been thinking about it much anymore

- the luidaeg didn't stop him from hurting tybalt - this os admittedly the biggest problem but she may not know he isn't daoine sidhe and therefore just have assumed she couldn't hurt him. We don't know exactly how her "don't hurt Titania's children" geas works after all

- simon and sylvester mention growing up together - yeah well sylvester did something stupid very early on and got some nighthaunt(s) to taste his blood. That or they're lying

- simon never once mentions or even alludes to it - if he's existed like this for so long it may be a hard habit to break to stop hiding it. That or he himself doesn't know, memory spells are probably a thing, Sylvester's parents might have adopted him and changed his memories and never told him

- he can do blood magic and May says she can't do blood magic - maybe may just hasn't figured it out yet (has she ever tried?) Plus anyone can steal someone else's power if they can make the blood charms or have someone to make them for them. Simon has had Eira to "help" for a long time

- why would eira even want him if he isn't daoine sidhe - fetches are rare and definitely useful and she used Oleander too who also wasn't daoine sidhe

In conclusion:

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Scrolling back through the Toby tags after reading BTS and 🤯🤯🤯

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A Castle for Christmas is tropey and ridiculous and a good start to the Hallmark-y marathon season. But damn, did they have to make the one gay character’s main defining trait be going mute after his husband died? And then not meaningfully address it further?

[legsdemandias]

Concrete, 100% effective way to tell if someone doesn’t belong in a LGBT+/queer space:

They openly and actively hate/ want to hurt the people in that space

[legsdemandias]

Controversial opinion here, I know, but just because you’re in a safe LGBT+/Queer space doesn’t mean you have to disclose their identity to everyone there. And people are allowed to bring their partners, regardless of their orientation, to those same spaces. 

Obviously there are certain spaces that are for specific people, but at the same time, y’all are so obsessed with micromanaging queer spaces. The only thing that should be a litmus for entry into those spaces is: “does this person want to hurt someone else in this space and I know that? Yes? Then they aren’t fucken welcome. Regardless of identity.”

[gayfirebird]

I volunteered in ine of the biggest queer youth clubs as an educator / guide (there isnt a word in english for these stuff).

We had so many queer kids that brought cishet friends and some of them didnt come out later, some of them really were cishet and that is fine.

They did no harm to the queer atmosphere and when someone new joined for the first time we gave them a little tour of the club and invited them to a one on one talk with one of the volunteers.

Ive had many of these conversations with teens at the ages of 12-19 and everyone calmed down when we told them there is no criteria to being there that this is a safe space and after a short explanation and some questions where many of them just blurted out their stories.

The non queer identifying people came for years either because they just met some friends from different places along the country and it was their usual hangout or because they really needed a safe space with no judgment in their lives.

Cishet people also need safe spaces where there are no gendered expectations of them and they can play with makeup and dresses and just be calm and learn about safe sexuality and consent.

Why in the world would you kick people who need safe spaces and benefit from them out???

Queer people seeing cishet people in queer spaces not acting weird and for once seeing the atmosphere is queer and the cis person has to adapt does marvels to one’s sense of how real it feels, how you could bring this safe space outside and this culture to other friends.

Introduce some of the stuff you learned to your friends and family maybe to some willing coworker idk.

The point is that our way to smash the patriarchy, gender roles, rape culture and more shit is too bring it outside and allow allies to be there cus why the fuck not

[legsdemandias]

Thanks for sharing! This really highlights a collection of reasons why it’s important to not create these arbitrary rules to who can and can’t come in. 

[prismatic-bell]

Also?

When I was in college, I had a cishet friend who was Christian and quietly felt homosexuality was a sin. I never heard her say so out loud….

…..which is why it STUNNED me when last year, she admitted she felt that way in college. But, she said, spending time with me in what we called the LGBTQIA+ group, to support me through a time when I was on and off suicidal, she discovered that queer people were, well….people. Who just wanted to be allowed to live. That might sound like “wow, the bar was belowground and she was doing the limbo with Satan,” but you must understand: this was 2006 in a very tiny town. Our senator had just compared homosexuality to both bestiality and pedophilia and there was a concerted push going on to write “one man, one woman” into the Constitution. Allison’s position (“I feel a certain kind of way but I’m not going to say it aloud”) was actually KINDER than most of the people around me.

And just spending time in our spaces, being around queer people, she realized “hey, what I have been told my whole life is a lie. These people are just people. Telling terrible jokes, having cookouts, fighting for basic human dignity, arguing over whether or not face painting is an appropriate college activity. There is no difference between them and me.”

Without a welcome into queer spaces, Allison might still be part of a homophobic church. Instead she helped organize her town’s first Pride parade in 2019.

“The queer kids, whether they’re gay or straight, need to stick together.” — Tim Miller, gay performance artist

Gatekeeping kills. STOP THAT.

[anthologyofm]

I was the “straight” in my schools Gay straight student alliance long before I understood I was Asexual. Being in that club made me more comfy talking about queer topics/connected me to a community that I had plenty of friends in but hadn’t felt like something I could participate cause I assumed I was hetero given my lack of attraction to women (and later realized I wasn’t attracted men either it was all just Comp het). So I second this. You never know where someone is at in their journey.

[radicarian]

WHILE understanding that a hereditary ruling class is a fuck-stupid thing to have IRL, I have no intention of leaving off reading and writing about secondary-world nobles and/or royalty. It lets you elevate family drama to extremely weird levels and really raise the stakes on questions of obligation, tradition, inheritance, and being tied into a job you actually might fucking suck at. Feels like all my life I’ve been seeing finger-wagging about how it’s more virtuous to write about regular folks, and how dumbass fantasy fans just project themselves onto princes and princesses because they’re in denial that their ancestors did physical labor, and I’m like, “irrelevant. Sometimes you just want to see sibling rivalry escalate to stabbings”

[sharing-of-words]

For even more drama, add immortality into the mix

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2021 be like…a fanfic feeling dated because they Skype each other.

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Without giving any major spoilers…

I’m kinda baffled and frustrated by the content in the ‘novella’ at the end of When Sorrows Come, being labelled as a novella and not part of the book itself?

I’ve always found it frustrating that the novellas are never included in the audiobook version, because that means anyone who reads via audiobook for accessibility reasons (or preference) loses out on that content?

But like, I get it’s some kind of licensing issue, and normally I’ve accepted that, but this didn’t feel like bonus content so much as the actual end of the novel, oddly cut off from the actual novel?

It’s all in Toby’s POV, and has some pretty impactful emotional content, and idk, I guess I’m just feeling pettily frustrated on behalf of the audiobook users.

[mxbutchtwink]

I get shit from people at work for wearing a pride mask with a power fist on it from time to time, weird looks, snickers, pointing and laughing, but once in a while I'll get meek little "I like your mask :)" comments from people passing by, nods and waves from others, I saw a kid with the nonbinary flag painted on their shoes shopping with their dad, a trans woman completely relaxed when she saw me, and two girls walked around holding hands, carefree. That I think. That is worth it. To let others know that they are safe.