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🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

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It's important to me that everyone understands that if you've got an autistic friend who periodically sends you pictures/videos/whatever of your Thing, because they know you're into it... They love you.

Now don't get me wrong, It may not necessarily be romantic love, they might not want to run off to a little farm in Montana where you'll be married forever and raise little sheeps...

But they definitely love you. And they're so happy when they spot a post about X and go "ooh, my friend likes X! I'll send it to them!".

Because they love you and want you to be happy.

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 20 March 1928

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Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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see writing is funny because sometimes you have to google things like “can the human body survive with every rib broken” and other times you have to google things like “is there an ikea in manhattan???”

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Fady Joudah, from the poetry collection [...], excerpt pub. The Yale Review [ID']

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Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

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@lovesdaya

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by ask4nailz on instagram

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“She held me close in her pretty arms for a moment and whispered in my ear, ‘Good night, darling, it is very hard to part with you,’”

— Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

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martyrs, 2008 // carmilla, j. sheridan le fanu.

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“Carmilla” (1872) thoughts

1) The heroine’s pov is very straight - however, she writes “I, at the date of my story, [was] only nineteen. Eight years have passed since then.” It’s a workable interp. that she’s looking back and de-queering things in retrospect. esp. considering that she and carmilla were sharing passionate embraces while carmilla killed several women; it would make sense that in 8 years she wants to distance herself both from the queerness and the erotic Horror/Gothic aspect of it 

2) i found it interesting that the writer allowed Carmilla herself to place herself and her behavior within nature - as something natural and ordained by Nature/God it’s not entirely the homophobic screed i had been expecting, in that sense - more complicated 

though, there’s also the scenes where the singing of hymns pains her and such, and her desire for women is wholly fatal and predatory, so i’m not saying it’s pro gay in any way lol. there’s just a flash of something more interesting in this moment.

3) The writing is more enjoyable than I expected! For the time period, it’s quite fluid and readable actually. I particularly enjoyed these passages:

It’s short (100 pages) and in the public domain, so it can be read for free on Project Gutenberg, if anyone is curious. It pre-dates the famous Dracula novel and I didn’t regret the time I spent with it at all!

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from “Carmilla”