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I'm Sick And Tired Of Watching You Throw Away Perfectly Good WLW Ships

By Kiersten Lee 

If you have read any of my other blogs, you know that I gay, and as such I watch a lot of shows featuring wlw (women-loving-women) relationships. And in my six years of knowing women could do that, I've noticed that these women often get dragged over the coals for actions that would get two men or a man and a woman a light scolding, if anything. 

Just to make it perfectly clear, I think it is fine to criticize these ships. A relationship being queer does not mean we have to sweep all our criticisms back into the closet, but I do think that wlw couples get a lot more criticism than other couples simply because they're women. Yay! It's not homophobia, it's misogyny.

The most recent-ish example is Caitvi, from Arcane, which does have a lot of problems. Most originating from Caitlyn. It's so messy that I wouldn't even bring it up, except for the fact that every other ship in the show is like this. Caitvi was rushed and kind of toxic? Yes. But Timebomb and Jayvik are literally always trying to kill each other, and nobody has anything bad to say about them, except how much they would've like more of the ship!

Well, I do hear some criticism for Timebomb, but still not as much as Caitvi. I hardly hear any for Jayvik, which I guess proves my theory that the more women in your ship the more criticism it gets. Step aside folks, I'm making ground-breaking discoveries here.

Unfortunately, one example does not a pattern make. Fortunately, I dredged up an old example from the 2010s; Catradora.

Okay, okay! Put down the pitchforks! I know that it deserves its fair share of criticism. It was not a good ship. But for the love of god, what was truly so wrong about it? "It's incest." They were raised as coworkers, not as sisters. They're just childhood friends. And yes, Catra is a terrible person for most of the series and she does a lot of horrible things to Adora. But even if it wasn't very good, she still had a redemption arc. She still did the kids show thing of making up with the people you hurt and then just all forgetting it. And let's be honest, she did work for fascists, but they were like diet fascists. Nobody in this show took the prospect of total world domination very seriously.

Hell, it's not even just the toxic ships that are getting criticism. I've seen people say Luz and Amity are a bad ship because Amity was Luz's bully for a little bit. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TUMBLR, LET PEOPLE BE INTERESTING! I'd rather have a million imperfect gay couples than one perfect one.

Anyway, thank you for listening to me talk about my special interest (hot women) and I'll have another gay blog post for you in a few months. See yah!

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Why I admire people with big vocabulary

by Kylee Haynes

There are millions of words in the English dictionary, which unfortunately, I can only ever remember to use a less than a third of it. I love diverse vocabulary more than I’d like to admit, but I can’t help it. Who wouldn’t want to sound studious with vocab like that? I sure do.

I have even begun to keep a word list where I note down any interesting, uncommon word that I read. Here are a few that I’ve written down:

Frittering: wasting time, money, or energy on meaningless things

Asinine: extremely stupid or foolish.

Gripe: a minor complaint.

Pandemonium: wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.

Dejection: a sad and depressed state; low spirits.

Even though some of these terms may be ones you know and even can define on your own, I sure do forget that they exist majority of the time. Instead of using these wonderful words, I tend to opt for the ones that are at the front on my brain, which are much simpler in contrast to said diction. Yes, they get the same point across, but the more complex words would make my words sound much fancier and educated. A way of writing I dream to achieve. 

For example, the sentence, “My leg was completely immobile.” versus “I couldn’t move my leg.” Of course the one with the larger vocabulary feels more dramatic, as it should be for a leg that you can’t move. Both get the same point across, but the bigger vocab not only sounds better, but it also brings a tone that the lesser vocabulary sentence lacks. Even words like “gripe,” intrigue me, as saying gripe just sounds much better than saying, I had a thing against—whatever. 

So, when someone’s work contains a large selection of vocabulary, I begin to admire not only the writing, but also the author. I wish so dearly to learn the ways in which they use language, how they so effortlessly create such beautiful lines with words that I should have remembered. It’s a mezmorizing sort of magic I unfortunately don’t think I’ll ever have, as my very memory tends to fail me with things like this. But that won’t stop me from jotting terms down in my notebook as if I’ll remember them anyway.

I just love the way these words sound. They make me sound like I actually know what I’m talking about, and everything becomes gracefully fancy. I only wish that one day I'll be able to use such dictation in my own writing like the authors I read from do. 

Why I admire people with big vocabulary

A rant about how vocabulary peaked my interest and why I admire those who use broader diction.

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by Piper S. Mullins

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“My head rubs against the

furless digits that wiggle

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as my nose tickles at

the scent of fish on

their fingers.

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the hand moves away

as I startle alert and

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to beckon it back.”

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