#veritasrose rambles

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I am begging, begging y’all to understand the difference between gore and body horror please.

Body horror is transformation/monstrous sort of things like a mouth where you shouldn’t have one or like, the shifting bones and whatnot in werewolf transformations. It is where something horrific is happening within the body itself.

It is not a bloody nose, cuts, wounds, injuries ect. That is gore. It is not scars, limb differences, or visual disabilities either.

For fuck’s sake please learn this stuff because the next time I see someone tagging a scarred or disabled character as “body horror” I am gonna lose it.

(Image ID courtesy of @consistantly-changing )

[Image ID: a section from doesthedogdie, a site that allows users to put common triggers on movies. The question is "Is there body horror?". There are 4 votes for Yes, and 0 votes for No. The text below, which elaborates where and what the trigger is, says "bloody head/nose and some cuts on a childs arm from her mum. also an infected rabbit bite on the protagonist".]

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We powered through more of Gideon the Ninth at my coven’s Storytime Sunday today.

We ended at a fencepost.

Now I know how evil villains feel.

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Found @a-kind-of-merry-war in the wild at a friend’s romantasy pop-up!

Seeing lovely folks get their stories out to the world is what I live for!

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I really wish people would understand that there are other forms of queer rep besides two same gendered people kissing.

A queer character is queer rep regardless of their romance or a lack thereof even. Ace and aro people exist. Trans people exist. Bi people exist. Queer characters are rep by existing, not just by who they interact with. If a character is nonbinary, they are queer rep whether they kiss someone or not. A bi character in a relationship with someone a different gender is still queer rep because they are still bi. Queer characters can even just be friends with one another. They can be single! And still be queer because that’s who they are not who they do!

This whole trend of deciding if art is valid representation based on romance and ships is reductive and dismissive of identities existing within individuals. And of the communities that we all need.

Just please, stop reducing entire identities down to relationships. Its all good and fun to enjoy your ships, but you have to remember the community is bigger than just romances.

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I took a bookbinding workshop tonight! It was really fun and definitely something I could see myself doing again!

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The Hubs got me a signed first edition of Nona the Ninth for my birthday! He himself isn’t really a reader, but he knows how much I love the series so he went out of his way to track down something for me. I really feel so loved and considered right now.

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I GOT APPROVED FOR DISABILITY!

It has been five long years of stress and I am so relieved I could cry!

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Sometimes the world is on fire and you gotta throw a doggie birthday party with your family to cope.

Wrex turned 2 today!