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The funniest character in A Secret Garden is the nurse who hates dealing with her hysterical patient so much that she decides "hey, what if I brought in ANOTHER temperamental rich kid and had them fight like pokemon". and it works.

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For one month, I am opening my ko-fi shop, where you can access my short story, "melting you're a daydream", a sapphic short story about bengali trans and lesbian schoolgirls, as a downloadable PDF for 15 dollars (starting price). desis and broke kids like me, not to worry, I will upload the story later without a paywall. but I ask the rest of you to consider that I'm a brown trans writer trying to get published, and any sort of financial support and feedback at this early stage for my creative projects is greatly appreciated.

For those of you who choose to buy the story, please do not circulate copies of it with your friend until I have uploaded the free version later. Please respect my creative integrity. I cannot do anything if you go against this, but I hope that you will not.

(The art is by @toripar . The artist will be paid in full for the profits generated by the proceeds of this.)

#fully broke so circulating this for people who can

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i love how house of leaves makes turning the page a terrifying prospect, never knowing what fresh horrors await for you but getting an idea not from reading but simply from glimpsing the layout, dread in the anticipation of reading. for example, sometimes you turn the page and it's all johnny truant font bullshit

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I do not want my fantasy media to be realistic. I want my fantasy media to be convincing.

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Genuinely and unironically my philosophy abt music has expanded to “stop writing off music because it’s from a specific genre” and I think that could be applied to most mediums actually

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parents are so crazy because they can say the most fucked up shit to you when your brain is forming and it sets the tone for your whole adult mind set and then they forget about it the next day

#a few weeks ago they were like ahahaha do u remember that funny little incident where we got a little mad when you were like eight #and i had to be like. yes i think about it everyday. it has changed how i interact with you or any adult in the world. #and i burst into tears and they were like noooooo dont pretend you're still affected by it you wouldnt even recall this rn if not for me rn #?!?!???!??!?!?!?! #anyway i love them

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“what if people transition and then regret it?” ok. let’s do that with everything. no more straight marriages until the heterosexual divorce rate is below the detransition rates

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all a girlie needs is to be surrounded by her trinkets and have ambient lighting and maybe an open window with a slight breeze

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#ME ABOUT SO MANY PEOPLE OH MY GOD

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I hate the trend of just describing books with what minorities the main characters represent and nothing else. not only does it feel weird + exploitative to me it's also such a shoddy ineffective marketing technique. "this is my book with queer polyam disabled vampires you should buy it" ok great but what is it like. about. what are the themes. why should I read it

#bro once my friend texted me and was like have u read this book and i was like maybe what is it about #and they were like idk i havent gotten that far yet but the maincouple is chefs kiss #and then later they were like WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS MAGICAL POWERS #did u like. not read. the synopsis at all. how are you unaware of the GENRE OF THE BOOK??? all you knew was the trope of the couple????????

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they're taking persephone out of the public domain because every possible version of that story has already been told. you have to do a modern queer feminist retelling of the scorpion and the frog now.

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As much as I appreciate Vaishnavi Patel for wanting to incorporate feminist narratives into the Ramayana, particularly with much maligned characters like Kaikeyi and Manthara, and as much as I dislike Ram as a mythological figure for personal reasons, I cannot help but feel that the author is really, really reaching with the whole "Ram is a raging misogynist and evil since childhood and Kaikeyi is a poor girlboss who only did what she did because of circumstances". Like with The Palace of Illusions, the Draupadi Karna subplot was a little heavy handed, but still rooted in some semblance of credibility, but this whole cartoonish villainizing of Ram feels like a reach and a half. And once again, I don't even like him.

#i was so excited for kaikeyi but it was soooooo bad god #i spent the entire book going. this author has been on twitter and it Shows.

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Suzanne collins is a certified GENIUS because by making most of the book about the PUBLICITY of the rebellion and not the fight itself, she was telling us that wars are won by who persuades more- who controls the narrative .

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taylor opening the show with the song that says “it’s you and me that’s my whole world” and “i counted days, i counted miles to see you there” i’m sobbing

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Everything everywhere all at once is a film about a girl ripping the entire universe apart just to find a part of her mother that she feels understands her. And everything everywhere all at once is a film about a mother ripping the entire universe apart just to understand her daughter. And my chest feels like it’s caving in when I think about it too long

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someone take one for the team and fall in love with me

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im so curious abt what ppl carry around on the daily.....rb & tag what's in ur pockets/bag?

#in reference to my school jacket that i wore on a daily basis until school ended last month -> #few broken teeth from my claw clip #a yellow uno reverse card my friend gave me #a scrap of paper with a doodle that a couple of us drew together #several chocolates just in case (lately alpenleibes)