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#cyberpunk dystopia

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"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."

"This artist must be white."

"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."

"No woman would ever write women like this."

"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"

Nope.

People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.

Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.

If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.

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this ask polly comment..

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I was reading adult fiction as a kid. That's not a brag about being intellectually precocious or anything, but I could appreciate the perspectives and voice of Amy Tan's characters in The Joy Luck Club while having stuff like their marital problems completely sail over my head because I had no frame of reference for it when I was 8. I wasn't repulsed, not exactly, I would only read the paragraphs about their sex lives and think "can't relate" and then turn to the next page because there was still something keeping me reading: the gilded treachery of a wealthy traditional family caught in superstitions and on the crux of adaptation to the cultural colonization by other world powers (and how a character is never really too young for the truth and to pursue justice), or the tension between generations of immigrants in WASP America, vicariously girlbossing before girlboss was a hashtag, and how the anxieties and obligations that are worse as children—that I could relate to, even though I didn't have a career or a marriage or consider having any abortions (because I was eight)—don't necessarily go away in adulthood but becomes more complex instead.

More recently, I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that has adult characters with careers who are renowned in their field, and...it is a jolly frolicking romping adventure that got me feeling slightly tired and irritated—maybe as though I were reading about much younger characters, but obviously it's not the ages of the characters that really bore me because these were all adults. It wasn't even the haphazard relationship that this book has with race (Captain Nemo is a "gentleman gone rogue" character type and a genius of technological marvels who secretly funds some decolonization initiatives because he's probably a Person of Color...but when the plot needs baddies, it's the scary spear-wielding indigenous islanders.)

There's a way there can be an immature story that is told with adult characters, and there's having a well-told story with incisive themes and characterization that's still age-appropriate to much younger characters and readers.

(And there's the odd genre of "regrettable youth" books that's about kids murdering each other or experimenting with drugs or surviving CSA and then the target audience can't be tidily sorted. "The Innocent Eye" is a narrative device that is not limited to children's literature even though it usually requires the point of view of a child experiencing the story without understanding it.)

I think young readers deserve good literature. Stories written "for children" should still be so thematically rich that they can return to the story at different times of their life and find new value in it that they didn't catch back when they/we lacked the firsthand experience to understand this theme or that theme, or to read between the lines. This doesn't even mean there must be murder or racism in the story. There are ways to write a valuable story and "make all the characters adults" or "add a murder" isn't it, even though I'm not averse to reading about adult characters or murders, or child characters or fairy tales. Those are not what make a good story good.

no hate but don't you find weird or get bored by reading books with characters much younger than you

that's actually a good question, give me like 100 hours to write about it

you know, i wrote and deleted and gave examples for nothing because it ultimately boils down to im drawn to stories, to good quality stories, with interesting characters.

i won't lie, i sort of look for books with characters that have my age, but if i narrow my search to that what am i supposed to consume? colleen hoover? emily henry? hannah grace? ali hazelwood? eww man. eww. i'd rather chew on a wooden stick. besides why would i miss on an amazing book bc of the character's age that would be stupid

there's also a huge misconception that when you become an adult you forget everything else you were. it's not the case, you won't stop being 21 and 17 and 12 and 7, and you also won't stop learning. everything any good book has to offer transcends ages, and on a personal note i'm still figuring out a lot of things thanks to good stories.

tl;dr no i don't get bored if the book is good

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I know fiber arts, pottery, and a bit of soap-making!

reblogs help us get more answers!

#polls

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

#goth lit

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some of the brightest minds of our generation post on tumblr during work hours

#boss makes a dollar / i make a dime / so i reblog to tumblr on company time

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Friendly reminder that asking your lycan partner to turn you is incredibly insensitive! Seriously can we retire this trope already? Not only is it just offensive, but no one would ever actually choose this life! Lycanthropy is a curse. Full stop.

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Ok user "moon-moon" as if that original meme wasn't created to mock pack nomenclature 🙄

Anyway I'm not gonna touch that internalized lycanphobia with a ten foot pole. Being turned by your partner is something that can be incredibly intimate as long as both parties are consenting and the one being turned is 100% sure they want it. Literally the only downside to transforming once a month is the pain, but midol works just fine. No one with these "lycanthropy bad" takes ever wants to discuss the legitimate positives that come with this "curse" lmao.

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I'm literally reclaiming moon moon but go off I guess. Anyways turning your partner is absolutely disgusting and morally reprehensible and anyone who does it should be muzzled permanently.

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lmao my wife literally saved my life when she turned me but i guess she should be muzzled huh? we run through the woods hunting deer together and can each haul in groceries in one trip now, but nooo she's obviously a danger to society because she cares enough about me to help me when insurance wouldn't cover my medicine

also it was confirmed that the creator of that meme literally makes and sells silver bullets so if you still wanna use moon moon for yourself that certainly is a choice. source: (X)

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I love that instead of naming the more common benefits of lycanthropy, you mentioned that you and your wife can carry all the groceries in one trip. I think that's definitely a positive that gets overlooked far too often and I commend you for speaking your truth, sir

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lol thanks but I'm a woman 😅

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Plus werewolf blood tastes way better and is as filling as 10 humans 👍

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Oh my GOD you vampblr freaks will just flock to anything. It clearly says "vamps DNI" in my bio!

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lmaoooo of course you're a vampire exclusionist

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wasn't OP the same guy who said fursuits were offensive to lycanthropes and doxxed a werewolf fursuiter?

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They ARE offensive and harmful to this community and I'm tired of pretending they're not. They perpetuate harmful depictions of what a humanoid wolf is actually like.

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me when I dox someone for making candy colored animal costumes that look nothing like what a real werewolf does

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K

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#goth lit

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

#quotes #Dune

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straight guy geologist describing a vertically oriented igneous intrusion to his buddy: it’s a . well. i’m not sure i can reclaim this one just get over here

#STEM academia #yuri duty #the geological formation is known as a dyke

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Should I break up with my roommate? We’re not dating or anything but the friendship is getting a little homoerotic and I’m scared of intimacy

Get more homoerotic

#Bare: a Pop Opera #(summarized badly)

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Where I live we're going through a heat wave and it's only April, so when I read "summer-suitable" I was already only thinking to suggest the spaghetti-strap top and extra short short-shorts at the beginning of "Our Song"—maybe a graffiti t-shirt and blue plaid pajama bottoms from "You Belong With Me". The gunne saxe inspired dresses from that very early era, maybe? The sort of "just an ordinary American country girl on the way to the church-sponsored ice cream social" that was like if cottagecore were minimalist.

The pop star glam style suits her perfectly, of course, Swarovski crystals on her stocking garter and disco-ball leotards ...but I can't bear to even think of wearing anything thicker than chiffon right now because I'm melting. If Lover onwards has anything like that, great i can't complete this reblog i am melted goodluck

could anyone help me with ideas for an eras tour outfit?? summer-suitable, preferably lover, folklore, midnights or ttpd themed, not a fancy expensive dress, maybe copying a music video or promo photo look, or just general vibes, or related to a specific song...

#just Swiftie things

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Dead Collections

Isaac Fellman       

“A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel.When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.”Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. Dead Collections is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies. “

#book derg #goth lit

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I’m having a spirited debate and need a larger sample size

#polls

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I somehow managed to go almost two years without drawing Harrow Nova once, so here she is. featuring Ortus being a Perfect Cavalier and Gideon being a Buff Necromancer

#netizen problems #fan art (not mine)

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Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and camo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

#Shakespeare #not musical theater

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"we need less sanitized queer stories" yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories